Otokar Fischer

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Otokar Fischer, cartoon by Hugo Boettinger, 1917

Otokar Fischer (20 May 1883 – 12 March 1938) was a Czech translator, playwright, poet and critic.

He made new translations of Goethe, Shakespeare and Villon. He was a professor at Prague university and the director of Bohemian National Theatre in Prague.

Died of a heart attack in theatre in Prague, as he learned that Hitler's army had occupied Austria.

External links

René Wellek: Otokar Fischer, in: The Slavonic and East European Review, Vol. 17, No. 49 (Jul., 1938), pp. 215–218
French translations of Fischer's poems
Correspondence between Otokar Fischer, Rudolf Pannwitz and Pavel Eisner

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 46774067 LCCN: n83215052 ISNI: 0000 0000 8124 6950 GND: 119006774 BNF: cb12023637k NKC: jk01031286

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Name	Fischer, Otokar
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Date of birth	20 May 1883
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Date of death	12 March 1938
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