Otto Heller (author)


Otto Heller author and academic. Heller wrote Prophets of Dissent.

Career

Heller was born in Karlsbad, Bohemia. He 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.
Heller died on 28 July 1941 at his summer cottage in Bellaire, Michigan.

Works

Heller was married to Jean S. Blair Heller.