Fritz Strich

Fritz Strich (13 December 1882 – 15 August 1963) was a Swiss-German literature historian. 
Life.
Born in Königsberg, Strich was a student of Franz Muncker and became a lecturer at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in 1910. In 1915 he was appointed extraordinary professor in Munich and in 1929 professor at the University of Bern. In this way he escaped the persecution of Jews in the German Reich. In 1941 Strich was awarded the Swiss nationality and worked as a "professor" until his emeritus in 1953.
Strich received the Goethe Medal for Art and Science in 1932, the in 1951 and the Goethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt in 1953. Strich was a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry.
Strich's estate in the Burgerbibliothek Bern documents "above all [his] scientific work".
Strich died in Bern at the age of 80.