Harry Zohn

{{Short description|Austrian-American author and translator}}

{{Expand German|topic=bio|Harry Zohn|date=June 2021}}

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| name = Harry Zohn

| birth_date = November 1923

| birth_place = Vienna

| occupation = essayist and translator

| nationality = Austrian

| citizenship = United States of America

| alma_mater = Suffolk University (BA)
Clark University (MAT)
Harvard University (PhD){{cite journal | url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24649277 | jstor=24649277 | title=In Memoriam: Harry Zohn (Nov. 21, 1923–June 3, 2001) | last1=Saur | first1=Pam | journal=Modern Austrian Literature | year=2001 | volume=34 | issue=1/2 | pages=125–128 }}

}}

Harry Zohn (November 21, 1923, Vienna – June 3, 2001, Boston) was an Austrian American literary historian, essayist and translator from German into English.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/12/us/harry-zohn-brandeis-professor-77.html|title=Harry Zohn, Brandeis Professor, 77|newspaper=The New York Times|date=12 June 2001|last1=Saxon|first1=Wolfgang}}{{Cite web|url=https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/24/resources/3103|title=Collection: Harry Zohn papers | HOLLIS for}}{{Cite web|url=https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/author/Z/H/au5555724.html|title = Harry Zohn}} Zohn was born in Austria. Aged 15 he fled to England in June 1938, where he was classified as an enemy alien, and worked as a farm labourer. He was subsequently joined there by his parents, and the family emigrated to the United States in 1940, settling in Boston.