Otto Heller (author)

Otto Heller (4 July 1863 - 29 July 1941) author and academic.[1] Heller wrote Prophets of Dissent.

For other people named Otto Heller, see Otto Heller (disambiguation).
Otto Heller
Born4 July 1863
Karlsbad, Bohemia, Austria
Died29 July 1941
Bellaire, Michigan
Notable worksProphets of Dissent
SpouseJean S. Blair Heller

Career

Heller was born in Karlsbad, Bohemia (now Karlovy Vary, Česko).[2] He attended the University of Prague, followed by the universities of Munich, Vienna, and Berlin. He came to the United States in 1883 as a tutor and secured the post of instructor in Greek at LaSalle College in Philadelphia in 1887. Heller received his doctor’s degree from the University of Chicago in 1890.

Heller taught briefly at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before becoming a professor of German language and literature at Washington University in 1892. In 1914, Heller was made professor of modern European literature in addition to his original professorship, and in 1924 he became the first dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, a post he held until he became dean emeritus in 1937.

Heller died on 28 July 1941 at his summer cottage in Bellaire, Michigan.[3]

Works
  • Studies in modern German literature (1905)
  • Henrik Ibsen: plays and problems (1912)
  • Prophets of Dissent: Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy (1918)

Works or publications
  • Heller, Otto, 1863-1941; Leon, Theodore H., 1907- (1941), The Language of Charles Sealsfield; a Study in a Typical Usage, St. Louis, OCLC 1870546CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Heller, Otto, 1863-1941; Leon, Theodore H. (Theodore Herzl), 1907- (1939), Charles Sealsfield : Bibliography of His Writings, Together With a Classified and Annotated Catalogue of Literature Relating to His Works and His Life, St. Louis: [publisher not identified], OCLC 1432414CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Faust and Faustus; a Study of Goethe's Relation to Marlowe, New York: Cooper Square Publishers, 1972, OCLC 324081
  • Frenssen, Gustav, 1863-1945; Heller, Otto, 1863-1941 (1906), Gravelotte; Chapter Xiv of Jörn Uhl, by Gustav Frenssen;, New York: Ginn & Company, OCLC 1457382CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Meyer, Conrad Ferdinand, 1825-1898; Heller, Otto, 1863-1941 (1911), Gustav Adolfs Page, Boston: D.C. Heath, OCLC 555507983CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Meyer, Conrad Ferdinand, 1825-1898; Heller, Otto, 1863-1941 (1893), Gustav Adolfs page von Conrad Ferdinand Meyer;, Boston: D.C. Heath, OCLC 2830537CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Henrik Ibsen; Plays and Problems, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1912, OCLC 788372
  • Storm, Theodor, 1817-1888; Heller, Otto, 1863-1941 (1917), In St. Jürgen;, New York: H. Holt and Company, OCLC 5920266CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • La fin du judaïsme;, Paris: Les Éditions Rieder, 1933, OCLC 2055196
  • Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 1729-1781; Heller, Otto, 1863-1941; Wolf,Ernst Louis, 1863- (1909), Lessing's Minna von Barnhelm, oder, Das Soldatenglück, Chicago: Scott, Foresman & Co., OCLC 861551298CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 1729-1781; Heller, Otto, 1863-1941 (1917), Minna Von Barnhelm; Or, Soldier's Fortune, New York: H. Holt and Company, OCLC 4545348CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Prophets of Dissent; Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche, and Tolstoy, Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 1968, OCLC 327984
  • Studies in Modern German Literature: Sundermann; Hauptmann; Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century, New York: Ginn & Co., 1905, OCLC 378247

Plays
  • Wildenbruch, Ernst von, 1845-1909; Clarke, Hugh Archibald, 1839-1927; Heller, Otto, 1863-1941; Folio, Frank (1970), Harold, OCLC 8342877CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

Collection Editor
  • Nagel, Charles, 1849-1940; Heller, Otto, 1863-1941 (1931), Charles Nagel, Speeches and Writings, 1900-1928 .., New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, OCLC 4389265CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

Speech
  • The Seriousness of Mark Twain : Address at the Annual Dinner of the State Historical Society at Hannibal, Missouri, Thursday, May 9, 1935, Hannibal, Mo.: Hannibal Chamber of Commerce, 1935, OCLC 4383217

German
  • Stifter, Adalbert, 1805-1868; Heller, Otto, 1863-1941 (1891), Das Haidedorf, Boston: D.C. Heath & Co., OCLC 7800240CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Baumbach, Rudolf, 1840-1905; Heller, Otto, 1863-1941 (1908), Der schwiegersohn; eine schneidergeschichte, New York: H. Holt, OCLC 2552798CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Schücking, Levin, 1814-1883; Heller, Otto, 1863-1941 (1903), Die drei Freier, Erzählung von Levin Schucking;, Boston: Ginn & Company, OCLC 1449460CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

Personal life

Heller was married to Jean S. Blair Heller.

See also

Further reading
  • Heller, Prof. Otto : Washington University, St. Louis, Mo, 1932, OCLC 156877666
  • Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.). Department of Language (1922), Heller Memorial Volume, St. Louis, Mo., OCLC 79180351

References
  1. "Dr Otto Heller (1864 - 1941)". Find A Grave.
  2. Heller (1895). "United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925". FamilySearch.
  3. "The St. Louis Star and Times from St. Louis, Missouri on July 29, 1941 · Page 3". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2020-06-18.
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