Otto Heller (author)

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Otto Heller
Born July 1863
Saxony, Germany
Died 29 July 1941
St. Louis, Missouri
Spouse Jean S. Blair Heller

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

Career

Heller 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.

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Collection Editor

Speech

German

Personal Life

Heller was married to Jean S. Blair Heller.

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