Heinz Politzer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Heinz Politzer

Austrian historian

Date of Birth: 31-Dec-1910

Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria

Date of Death: 30-Jul-1978

Profession: writer, author, university teacher, journalist, literary critic, novelist, literary historian

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Heinz Politzer (December 31, 1910 – July 30, 1978) was an internationally recognized academic and author.
As a young man he was forced to flee Nazism first to Palestine and then to the United States, where he taught German language and literature as a professor at the Bryn Mawr College, Oberlin College, and the University of California, Berkeley.
He was a literary scholar, published poet, and prominent editor, particularly of Franz Kafka.
As a close associate of Kafka's protégé, Max Brod, Politzer coedited with Brod the first complete collection of Kafka's works in eight volumes, published initially by the Schocken publishing house of Berlin during the early years of the Nazi dictatorship and subsequently by the successor firm Schocken Books in New York.