Otokar Fischer

{{Short description|Czech literary historian, translator, poet and critic}}

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

He was born in Kolín, then part of Austria-Hungary.

He made new translations of Goethe, Shakespeare and Villon. He was a professor at Prague university and the director of 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 [https://www.jstor.org/pss/4203472]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20040831161244/http://www.librairie-compagnie.fr/tchecoslovaquie/auteurs/f/fischer.htm French translations of Fischer's poems]
[http://www.buchkatalog.de/kod-bin/isuche.cgi?banner=kaufguide-dooyoo&Aktion=Suchen&usecookie=ja&SB=3768198103 Correspondence] between Otokar Fischer, Rudolf Pannwitz and Pavel Eisner