Eva Schiffer (1925-2010), born in Austria, was a professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Massachusetts Amherst from 1955-1988. In addition to various articles on 20th-century German literature and numerous book reviews, she is the editor of the correspondence between the eminent former Amherst College political scientist Karl Loewenstein and Thomas Mann (1981, 1982). She died in 2010 in Amherst, Mass.
From the guide to the Eva Schiffer Materials Related to Editing the Thomas Mann-Karl Loewenstein Correspondence, ca. 1977-1983, (Amherst College Archives and Special Collections)