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Peter Demetz

Czech-American translator, writer and Germanist

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born: 1922
died: 2024
age at death: 101
known for: translator, writer, university teacher

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Peter Demetz was an American scholar of German literature. He was born in Prague, where he was persecuted under the Nazis and escaped the Communist regime in 1949. He worked in Germany as a teacher and radio journalist. He emigrated to the United States in 1952, studied further, and began teaching at Yale University in 1956; he was later appointed a Sterling Professor there and Distinguished Visiting professor at Rutgers University.

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