Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
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E-mail: coertzen@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Title: | Dr. |
Prename: | Leonie |
Surname: | Spitzer |
Profession: | Writer, teacher |
Birthday: | 05/17/1891 |
Place of birth: | Vienna |
Date of death: | 06/05/1940 |
Place of death: | Oxford, Great Britain |
Education: | Private lessons in Vienna; 1912 teaching certificate for French and English language; 1912–13 study visit to Oxford; 1916 final high school examinations (*Matura*) and subsequently university studies (Anglo-Saxon, Gothic, Ancient Greek) in Vienna; 1920 doctorate; 1923 state teaching examination |
Career: | 1921–22 works in a publishing house; 1923–38 middle school and high school teacher, Vienna; 1938 forced retirement; escapes to Italy, then in 1939 to Oxford with the support of the British Federation of University Women (BFUW); 1939–40 Cheltenham Ladies’ College and Crofton Grange School |
Biographical literature: | Siglinde Bolbecher and Konstantin Kaiser, *Lexikon der österreichischen Exilliteratur* (Vienna: Deuticke, 2000), 607; *Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950* 59 (2007), no. 13: 41; [*Neue Deutsche Biographie*, "Leonie Spitzer"](http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfzS17078-5.html) |
Major works: | *Wandlungen der Liebe* (ed. Helene Adolf, Darmstadt: Bläschke, 1978); *Die Familie Höchst: Romanfragment aus der Zeit von Österreichs Umbruch*, ed. Helene Adolf (Bad Soden: Woywod, 1986) |
Links: | [Deutsche Liebeslyrik, Leonie Spitzer](http://www.deutsche-liebeslyrik.de/spitzer_leonie.htm) |