Wilma Iggers

Wilma Iggers, born in 1921, in the German-speaking part of Czechoslovakia. She and her family moved to Canada in 1938. She earned bachelor's and master's degrees from McMaster University in Canada and, in 1952, a PhD in Germanics from the niversity of Chicago. At the University of Chicago, she met Georg Iggers, and the couple were married in 1948. Her most recent positions were Professor of German at Canisius College (Buffalo), 1965-1991, since then Professor emerita. Her publications include Karl Kraus, A Viennese Cultural Critic of the Twentieth Century (1967) and Women of Prague (Berghahn, 1995).