A. E. (Adolf Eduard) Zucker

Born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on October 26, 1890, Adolf Edward Zucker became an American scholar of German language and literature. He studied at the University of Illinois and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1917.

His career took him from teaching posts in Texas and Pennsylvania to several years in Peking, followed by graduate study at the Sorbonne. He taught at the University of Maryland for much of his career, with additional appointments including the University of North Carolina and Indiana University. After World War II, he also worked with the American military administration in Germany in the field of culture and education.

Zucker wrote and edited books on literature, theater, immigration, and German-American history. Among his better-known works are The Chinese Theatre, Ibsen, the Master Builder, and The Forty-eighters: Political Refugees of the German Revolution of 1848. He died on May 13, 1971, in College Park, Maryland.