Otokar Fischer

Otokar Fischer, cartoon by Hugo Boettinger, 1917

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

He was born in Kolín, Czech Republic.

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 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 [1]
• French translations of Fischer's poems
• Correspondence between Otokar Fischer, Rudolf Pannwitz and Pavel Eisner

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Name	Fischer, Otokar
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Date of birth	1883
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Date of death	1938
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