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Mildred Harnack.
American-German literary historian, professor, translator; Resistance fighter and anti-Nazi activist, who was executed during WWII in Germany
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About Mildred Harnack
Mildred Elizabeth Harnack was an American literary historian, translator, and member of the German resistance against the Nazi regime. After marrying Arvid Harnack, she moved to Germany in 1929, where she began her career as an academic. Mildred Harnack spent a year at the University of Jena and the University of Giessen working on her doctoral thesis. At Giessen, she witnessed the beginnings of Nazism. Mildred Harnack became an assistant lecturer in English and American literature at the University of Berlin in 1931.
Everything about Mildred Harnack →- Occupation
- writer, translator, literary critic, literary historian
- Citizenship
- United States, German Reich
- Born
- September 16, 1902
- Died
- February 16, 1943