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Stefan Hock

Born: 01-09-1877
Faculty: Philosophical School
Category: Expelled teacher
Stefan HOCK (born on January 9th, 1877 in Vienna, died on May 15th, 1947 in London) was Pd for Deutsche Philologie (Neuere deutsche Literaturgeschichte) at the Philosophical School of the University of Vienna.
He was persecuted in times of Nazism as a Jew lost his position and was thrown out of the university in 1938. He was able to emigrate to London/Great Britain. Lit.: Neue Deutsche Biographie|NDB; Oesterreichisches Biographisches Lexikon|OeBL 1815–1950, Bd. 2 (Lfg. 9, 1959), 347; STAUDACHER 2009, 259; Teilnachlass in der Oesterreichischen Nationalbibliothek|OeNB; information from Christine Karner, 2013
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