Heller, Peter, 1920-....

Professor at State University of New York at Buffalo; b. in Vienna; immigrated to U.S. in 1944.

From the description of Papers, 1929-1981. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 28415965

Author and educator. Born in Vienna; immigrated to the U.S. in 1944. Died 1998.

From the description of Peter Heller papers, 1925-1992. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983380

Biographical Note

• 1920, Jan. 11: Born, Vienna, Austria
• 1929 - 1932 : Analysand of Anna Freud Student, Hietzing School, Vienna, Austria
• 1938: Fled Austria
• circa 1940: Interned in England and then sent to Canada
• 1943: Married Katrina Burlingham (divorced)
• 1944: B.A., McGill University, Montreal, Canada Immigrated to the United States
• 1947: Naturalized as a United States citizen
• 1951: Married Christiane Menzel Ph.D., Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
• 1951 - 1954 : Instructor in German, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
• 1954 - 1968 : Associate professor, professor, and Commonwealth Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Mass.
• 1967: Published with Edith Ehrlich German Fiction and Poetry. New York: Macmillan
• 1973: Appointed professor of German and comparative literature, State University of New York, Buffalo, N.Y.
• 1983: Coedited with Günther Bittner Eine Kinderanalyse bei Anna Freud. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann
• 1990: Published A Child Analysis with Anna Freud, translated by Salomé Burckhardt and Mary Weigand and revised by the author. Madison, Conn.: International Universities Press
• 1992: Published Anna Freud's Letters to Eva Rosenfeld. Madison, Conn.: International Universities Press
• 1998, Nov. 7: Died, Buffalo, N.Y.

From the guide to the Peter Heller Papers, 1925-1992, (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)