Otokar Fischer is not only one of the most important figures in Prague’s cultural life between the turn of the century and the Second World War, he was also an internationally renowned scientist and intellectual. His work and work could neither be appreciated nor examined in depth under the communist regime. In this volume, his personality and work are systematically explored for the first time, with a view to the sources as well as to national and international contexts. The contributions shed light on Fischer’s intellectual and linguistic biography, his international relationships, his philological, literary theoretical and historical concepts and works, his poetic and translational work, and finally his (cultural) political journalism and work.