Otto Heller (July 1863 - 29 July 1941) author and academic. Heller wrote Prophets of Dissent.
Heller 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.
Studies in modern German literature (1905)
Henrik Ibsen: plays and problems (1912)
Prophets of Dissent: Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy (1918)
Heller, Otto, 1863-1941; Leon, Theodore H., 1907- (1941), The Language of Charles Sealsfield; a Study in a Typical Usage, St. Louis, OCLC 1870546 CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
Heller, Otto, 1863-1941; Leon, Theodore H. (Theodore Herzl), 1907- (1939), Charles Sealsfield : Bibliography of His Writings, Together With a Classified and Annotated Catalogue of Literature Relating to His Works and His Life, St. Louis: [publisher not identified], OCLC 1432414 CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
Faust and Faustus; a Study of Goethe's Relation to Marlowe, New York: Cooper Square Publishers, 1972, OCLC 324081
Frenssen, Gustav, 1863-1945; Heller, Otto, 1863-1941 (1906), Gravelotte; Chapter Xiv of Jörn Uhl, by Gustav Frenssen;, New York: Ginn & Company, OCLC 1457382 CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
Meyer, Conrad Ferdinand, 1825-1898; Heller, Otto, 1863-1941 (1911), Gustav Adolfs Page, Boston: D.C. Heath, OCLC 555507983 CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
Meyer, Conrad Ferdinand, 1825-1898; Heller, Otto, 1863-1941 (1893), Gustav Adolfs page von Conrad Ferdinand Meyer;, Boston: D.C. Heath, OCLC 2830537 CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
Henrik Ibsen; Plays and Problems, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1912, OCLC 788372
Storm, Theodor, 1817-1888; Heller, Otto, 1863-1941 (1917), In St. Jürgen;, New York: H. Holt and Company, OCLC 5920266 CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
La fin du judaïsme;, Paris: Les Éditions Rieder, 1933, OCLC 2055196
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 1729-1781; Heller, Otto, 1863-1941; Wolf,Ernst Louis, 1863- (1909), Lessing's Minna von Barnhelm, oder, Das Soldatenglück, Chiago: Scott, Foresman & Co., OCLC 861551298 CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 1729-1781; Heller, Otto, 1863-1941 (1917), Minna Von Barnhelm; Or, Soldier's Fortune, New York: H. Holt and Company, OCLC 4545348 CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
Prophets of Dissent; Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche, and Tolstoy, Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 1968, OCLC 327984
Studies in Modern German Literature: Sundermann; Hauptmann; Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century, New York: Ginn & Co., 1905, OCLC 378247
Wildenbruch, Ernst von, 1845-1909; Clarke, Hugh Archibald, 1839-1927; Heller, Otto, 1863-1941; Folio, Frank (1970), Harold, OCLC 8342877 CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
Nagel, Charles, 1849-1940; Heller, Otto, 1863-1941 (1931), Charles Nagel, Speeches and Writings, 1900-1928 .., New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, OCLC 4389265 CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
The Seriousness of Mark Twain : Address at the Annual Dinner of the State Historical Society at Hannibal, Missouri, Thursday, May 9, 1935, Hannibal, Mo.: Hannibal Chamber of Commerce, 1935, OCLC 4383217
Stifter, Adalbert, 1805-1868; Heller, Otto, 1863-1941 (1891), Das Haidedorf, Boston: D.C. Heath & Co., OCLC 7800240 CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
Baumbach, Rudolf, 1840-1905; Heller, Otto, 1863-1941 (1908), Der schwiegersohn; eine schneidergeschichte, New York: H. Holt, OCLC 2552798 CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
Schücking, Levin, 1814-1883; Heller, Otto, 1863-1941 (1903), Die drei Freier, Erzählung von Levin Schucking;, Boston: Ginn & Company, OCLC 1449460 CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
Heller was married to Jean S. Blair Heller.
