births
February 17, 1911
Oskar Seidlin, German-American author, poet, and scholar (died 1984)
Oskar Seidlin
Oskar Seidlin was a Jewish emigre from Nazi Germany first to Switzerland and then to the U.S. He taught German language and literature as a professor at Smith College, Middlebury College, Ohio State University, and Indiana University from 1939 to 1979. He authored a number of fictional and non-fictional works.