Howard FischerUppsala, Sweden “A spiteful something has been fabricated out of an innocent nothing.”—Dr. Löwenstein in Professor Bernhardi Professor Bernhardi: A Comedy in Five Acts (1912) is one of seventeen plays written by Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931), a Viennese physician who also published two novels and twelve short stories or novellas. He belonged to a non-observant…