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Robert Plank
| Full Name: |
Robert
Plank |
| Born: |
January 17, 1907
Vienna, Austria, Austro-Hungarian Empire |
| Died: |
July 15, 1983
California, USA |
| Occupation: |
Teacher, Social Worker, Writer |
| Nationality: |
American |
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Biography
Dr Plank, whose doctorate was in the law, not medicine, was born in Vienna in 1907. To escape Hitler's tyranny, he emigrated in 1938 to the US, where he studied psychiatric social work at the University of California at Berkeley, and then became a social worker in San Francisco and in Cleveland, Ohio, where he was also Adjunct Associate Professor for the Psychology of Literature at Cæ Western Reserve.
His preoccupation with SF arose from his interest in utopian literature, in man's nobler aspirations (an interest that found expression in a little study of the controversial utopist Josef Popper-Lynkeus [1838-1921], Der Plan des Josef Popper-Lynkeus [1978], written in collaboration with his friend Frederick P. Hellin, and unfortunately available only in German), and he wrote essays on SF long before the general academic interest in SF started.
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