The suicide in Berlin of the noted literary historian Prof. George Ellinger was reported here today via Switzerland. According to Swiss advices, Prof. Ellinger, who was 80, took his life because as a Jew he was refused admission to libraries to continue research for his four-volume opus, “The History of New Latin Literature.”
Three volumes of the work had been published before the Nazis came to power. A’though he had no chance to publish the fourth volume in Germany, Prof. Ellinger had been trying to continue work on it in the hope it would achieve publication abroad.
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