Otto Alois Strauss

Born:	09-26-1883
Faculty:	Philosophical School
Category:	Deprivation of academic degree

Otto Alois STRAUSS (born on September 26th, 1883 in Baden, NÖ), had graduated at the Philosophical School at the University of Vienna in English language and literature Studies on July 18th, 1911 with the academic degree 'Dr. phil.' (dissertation: 'Über Sprache und Dialekt einiger frühmittelenglischer Homilien').
In times of Nazism he was deprived of his academic degree on February 28th, 1942 with the racist argument, that he as a Jew was not considered dignified an academic degree of a German university ('eines akademischen Grades einer deutschen Hochschule unwürdig').
It took 13 years since the deprivation - and a very long time since the end of Nazism - until the regranting of the doctorate took finally place on May 15th, 1955.