Otto Skutsch
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Otto Skutsch (6 December 1906 – 8 December 1990) was a German-born British classicist and academic, specialising in classical philology. He was Professor of Latin at University College London from 1951 to 1972.[1]
Skutsch was born on 6 December 1906 in Breslau, then in the German Empire.[2] He was the third child of Franz Skutsch, a German classical philologist.[3] He was six years old when his father died.[4] He was educated at the Friedrichs-Gymnasium in Breslau.[5] He then studied at the University of Breslau, the University of Kiel, the University of Berlin, and the University of Göttingen.[3] He completed his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree at Göttingen in 1934.[5] Because his father was Jewish, Skutsch saw the rise of the Nazi Party as a threat to himself, and so he left Germany for the United Kingdom sometime in 1934 or 1935.[2][5]
