(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Professor Leon Kellner. Shakespearean scholar and former English secretary to Austria’s retiring president, Hainisch, died here today at the age of 70.
Prof. Kellner took an active part in the formation of the Zionist movement thirty years ago, when he cooperated with Dr. Theodor Herzl, founder of the Zionist organization.
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