An American who is a German literature translator and did a thesis on an Austrian prodigy born in 1874 taught at the University of Vienna.
Vincent Kling is an American scholar and translator of German literature. 
 His PhD thesis was based on the works of Hugo von Hofmannsthal. 
 He also spent some time at Georg-August-Universitt in Gttingen, Germany, and later taught at the University of Vienna under a Fulbright scholarship. 
Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann von Hofmannsthal (] ; 1 February 1874  15 July 1929) was an Austrian prodigy, a novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist. 
