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    Title

  • Ernst Schlochauer

  • Physical Description

    1 photograph : black-and-white ; 25 x 20 cm

  • Date

    1961

  • Place of Publication

    [Queens (New York, N.Y.)]

  • Summary

    Ernst J. Schlochauer (1921-1961) taken in his office, English Dept., Queens College of the City University of New York, January 1961

  • Depicted

    Schlochauer, Ernst.

  • Subject

    Portraits, Men; Authors; College teachers

  • Genre

    Photographs

  • Part Of

    Ernst J. Schlochauer Collection, AR 5785

  • Accession Number

  • URL

Biographical/Historical Information

The literary scholar Ernst J. Schlochauer was born in Berlin, Germany in 1921. At age 16, he was sent to school in England and in 1939 he and his family immigrated to England. After surviving the London Blitz, he moved to the United States. In 1944, he received his bachelor’s degree from Queens College in Flushing, NY and a doctorate from Princeton in 1948 in literature. Schlochauer specialized in Elizabethan drama, writing on the works of William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, and Henry Chettle. He taught at Queens College from 1951 until his early death at age 39 in 1961. Ernst Schlochauer had suffered since birth from the heart condition “Blue baby symptom” (Tetralogy of Fallot).

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Citation

Ernst Schlochauer, Leo Baeck Institute, F 001 AR 5785.