Otto Maria Carpeaux
Otto Maria Carpeaux · Arts & Literature
Literary & drama critic
1900, Vienna, Austria — 1978, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Austria · Brazil
Otto Maria Carpeaux is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Literary & drama critic
Otto Maria Carpeaux was an Austrian-Brazilian literary critic and historian, author of the monumental 'History of Western Literature', who became one of Brazil's most influential critics after fleeing to Rio de Janeiro in 1939. Born to a Jewish family in Vienna, he had converted to Catholicism but was persecuted as a Jew under Nazism, prompting his emigration. He was of Jewish origin.
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Literary & drama critic
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