Otokar Fischer (20 May 1883 – 12 March 1938) was a Czech translator, playwright, poet and critic.
He was born in Kolín, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
He made new translations of Goethe, Shakespeare and Villon. He was a professor at Prague university and the director of Bohemian National Theatre in Prague.
Died of a heart attack in theatre in Prague, as he learned that Hitler's army had occupied Austria.
External links
- René Wellek: Otokar Fischer, in: The Slavonic and East European Review, Vol. 17, No. 49 (Jul., 1938), pp. 215–218
- French translations of Fischer's poems
- Correspondence between Otokar Fischer, Rudolf Pannwitz and Pavel Eisner