The Suicide of the Pupil Mueller

Alfred Lichtenstein was killed in the first months of the First World War at the age of twenty-five; some of his poems have been translated into English, but, until now, none of his strange short stories or occasional essays.

Sheldon A. Gilman is a preceptor in the Department of Modern Foreign Language and literature at Boston University. He is the overall coordinator of German Language courses.

Robert Levine is a Professor of English at Boston University. He is the author of many books, including The Deeds of God Through the Franks (Kessigner, 2004) and A Thirteenth-Century Life of Charlemagne (Garland, 1991). (updated 6/2010)