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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.
Aug 30, 2018 · A hard-working, studious blacksmith’s son who immigrated to America as a teenager and forged an academic career teaching German and biology, Otto Plath was not a Nazi. But he was an iron-willed domestic tyrant who subjugated Sylvia’s mother – a bright former student twenty-one years his junior – and may well have had a sadistic streak.
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Born in 1932 in Boston, Plath was the daughter of a German immigrant college professor, Otto Plath, and one of his students, Aurelia Schober. The poet’s early years were spent near the seashore, but her life changed abruptly when her father died in 1940.
Plath's father, Otto Plath, was a prominent entomologist, and his early death when she was just eight years old cast a long shadow over her life. Through her poetry, Plath sought to reconcile her conflicting emotions towards her father, grappling with his absence, his authoritarian nature, and the impact he had on her own sense of self.
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...
Plath's father, Otto Plath, had died from complications after his leg amputation. He had been ill previously before his death for around four years before finally dying from untreated diabetes mellitus. Initially in "Daddy," Plath idolizes her father, going as far as to compare him to God.
