Eduard (Edward) Glaser
| Born: |
12-26-1918 |
| Faculty: |
Philosophical School |
| Category: |
Expelled student |
Eduard GLASER (later: Edward GLASER), born on December 26
th, 1918 in Vienna (entitled residency ("heimatberechtigt") for Vienna/Austria, Citizenship: Austria), son of Dr.iur. Josef Glaser (1882-1959, lawyer, bank official) and physician Dr. med. Salomea (Szeindel) Glaser (née Gross, 1889-1955) and lived in Vienna's 2
nd district, Franz-Hochedlinger-Gasse 9. Eduard Glaser had graduated from the Bundesgymnasium in Vienna 2 in 1936 and began his studies at the University of Vienna in the fall term of 1936/37, and was last enrolled in the 2
nd year at the Philosophical School in the fall term of 1937/38, taking lectures in ancient history and classical philology (Latin and Greek).
In 1938, after the takeover of power of National-Socialism he was forced to quit his studies for racist reason and to leave the University of Vienna, like his younger sister
Lucy Glaser, who studied at the Medical School, and was also expelled from the University of Vienna.
His father, Dr. Josef Glaser (1882-1959) had received a doctorate in law from the German University in Prague/Austria-Hungary [Praha/Czech Republic]) in 1917 and was a bank official in the Boden-Creditanstalt resp. after the merger in 1930 in the Creditanstalt-Bankverein, but was dismissed there at the end of 1933 and retired early, while his mother, Szendel Gross, who received her doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1915, was able to continue working in the economic crisis at the General Hospital and in her own practice until 1938, when she was only allowed to treat Jewish patients under National Socialism
After his parents and sisters had already emigrated to England in 1938, Eduard Glaser also had to flee Vienna and was able to emigrate to Argentina as a forestry worker in 1939 and later to the USA. While his sister and parents had also emigrated from England to the USA in November 1940 and were living in Detroit, Edward Glaser was drafted into the US Army
He was later able to continue his studies and earn a doctorate in Spanish Literature at Harvard, becoming University Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Literature at the University of Michigan's Department of Romance Languages and Literatures in Ann Arbor, where he also lived with his wife Odete Faria Glaser (1929-199?) and their two children together.
He died on August 29
th, 1972, only 53 years old, in Ann Arbor, Michigan/USA and is buried at Forest Hill Cemetery ther.
Lit.: Archive of the University of Vienna/enrollment forms ("Nationale") PHIL 1936-1938; POSCH/INGRISCH/DRESSEL 2008, 392; letters of Lucy Glaser-Merritt to Herbert Posch from September and October 2002.
Herbert Posch
