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Otto Emil Plath (April 13, 1885 – November 5, 1940) was a German-American writer, academic, and biologist. Plath worked as a professor of biology and German language at Boston University and as an entomologist , with a specific expertise on bumblebees .
- Author, entomologist
- German and American
- Sylvia Plath, Warren Plath
- Aurelia Schober
Aug 17, 2012 · Scholars of Plath have expressed their astonishment at the newly discovered FBI files, as they were unaware that Otto, a scientist, had even been investigated over alleged "pro-German" sympathies ...
Aug 30, 2018 · An anthropologist's take on Sylvia Plath's father, Otto Plath, who was a blacksmith's son and a sadistic ironist. He suggests that Sylvia Plath's poems and suicide attempts were influenced by her father's death, abandonment, and abandonment of her mother. He also connects her to her mother's death and her own death.
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Aug 20, 2012 · Newly released FBI files on Sylvia Plath’s father, Otto, corroborate Plath’s pro-Nazi characterization of him in her 1958 poem, “Daddy” ("Panzer-man, panzer-man, O You— / Not God but a swastika”) by describing him as “pro-German” with a “morbid disposition." Although Otto died in 1940 when his daughter was eight, he exerted a ...
Oct 24, 2023 · Like many previous commentators, Clark attempts to vindicate Otto Plath’s politics. These efforts always leave me wondering. True, Otto had no Nazi Party affiliation; he lived most of his adult life in the United States, as a quiet entomologist with a specialty in bees. But he was also a strict, humorless German man born in 1885.
Sylvia Plath. 1932–1963. Bettmann / Getty Images. Sylvia Plath was one of the most dynamic and admired poets of the 20th century. By the time she took her life at the age of 30, Plath already had a following in the literary community. In the ensuing years her work attracted the attention of a multitude of readers, who saw in her singular ...
Aug 23, 1993 · Previously, the death of Plath’s father, Otto (a German-born professor of entomology, who died when she was barely eight), had been thought of as the shadow-event of her life, the wound from ...
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