About Harry Zohn
Lived 1923 – 2001 (aged 77). Harry Zohn was an American translator, university teacher, writer, historian, editor and literary historian.
Harry Zohn (November 21, 1923, Vienna – June 3, 2001, Boston) was an Austrian American literary historian, essayist and translator from German into English. Zohn was born in Austria. Aged 15 he fled to England in June 1938, where he was classified as an enemy alien, and worked as a farm labourer. He was subsequently joined there by his parents, and the family emigrated to the United States in 1940, settling in Boston.
Awards
1960: Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class 1999: Ring of Honor of the City of Vienna
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Who was Harry Zohn?
Austrian-American author and translator
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Harry Zohn was born on 21 November 1923 in Vienna.
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Harry Zohn died on 3 June 2001 in Boston.
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Harry Zohn was a translator, university teacher, writer, historian, editor and literary historian.
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Harry Zohn was American.
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