Otokar Fischer (20 May 1883 â 12 March 1938) was a Czech literary historian, translator, poet and critic.
He was born in KolÃÂn, then part of Austria-Hungary.
He made new translations of Goethe, Shakespeare and Villon. He was a professor at Prague university and the director of National Theatre in Prague.
He died of a heart attack in theatre in Prague, as he learned that Hitler's army had occupied Austria.