Robert Lohan
Robert Lohan (born April 2, 1884 in Bielitz , Austria-Hungary ; died June 18, 1953 in Oneonta (New York) ) was an Austro-American literary historian, director, and writer.
Life
Robert Lohan was the son of the judge Ludwig Lohan. He attended high school in Bielitz and Vienna. He studied philology at the University of Vienna , received his doctorate in 1906 and passed the teaching examination in 1907. He worked as a high school professor in Klagenfurt and Vienna. During the First World War he was drafted as an officer from 1915 to 1918.
Lohan also wrote theater reviews. In 1922 he moved to the theater and worked in Bielitz, Lodz and as chief director and deputy director of the Wiener Kammerspiele . He held courses as a language and rhetoric teacher at the adult education center and from 1926 was a lecturer (professor) at the New Vienna Conservatory .
From 1927 to 1929 he was director of the Wiener Spiegelverlag and was then the literary director of the Munich "Kulturverlag".
Lohan became the headmaster of a boarding school in Grinzing . After the annexation of Austria in March 1938 he was released. In 1938 he emigrated to Great Britain and from there to the USA. He found work at Bethany College in Lindsborg , Kansas and from 1942 to 1951 as a professor of German and linguistics at Hartwick College in Oneonta .
Fonts (selection)
- Over the roofs , according to Victor Cherbuliez . Vienna: Glöckner, 1930
- (Mhrsg.): The heart of Europe. An Austrian lecture book . Vienna: Saturn, 1935
- Talking and talking. A manual for everyone who wants and has to work through the word . Vienna: Saturn, 1936
- How to read, write, and speak modern German . New York: Hungarian, 1944
- Once upon a time: 6 beautiful German fairy tales. Retold . Illustrations Harry Roth. New York: Frederick Ungar, 1944
- The golden Age of German Literature . New York: Frederick Ungar, 1944
- The last classic: a Grillparzer breviary . New York: Frederick Ungar, 1944
- America, you have it better: the United States as it is and as it has become . New York: Frederick Ungar, 1946
- Christmas tales for reading aloud . New York: Stephen Daye, 1946
- Speaking and speeches . New York: Daye Press, 1947
- with Maria Lohan: A new Christmas treasury: with more stories for reading aloud . New York: Stephen Daye Press, 1954
- A concise German Grammar for reference and review . New York: Hungarian, 1955
literature
- Ursula Seeber (Hrsg.): Small allies: expelled Austrian children's and youth literature . Vienna: Picus, 1998 ISBN 3-85452-276-2 , p. 147
- Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945 . Volume 2.2. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 746
- Hanus: Lohan, Robert. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 5, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1972, p. 298 f. (Direct links on p. 298 , p. 299 ).
- Zlata Fuss Phillips: German Children's and Youth Literature in Exile, 1933–1950. Biographies and Bibliographies . Munich: De Gruyter, 2001, ISBN 3-598-11569-5 , pp. 144f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Robert Lohan in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Robert Lohan in the WorldCat bibliographic database
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lohan, Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian-American literary historian, director and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 2, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bielitz , Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 18, 1953 |
| Place of death | Oneonta (New York) |