 Another tribute from an unexpected quarter came five years later from the aforementioned Hans Egon Holthusen (see Life in Letters, above), who also taught at Northwestern between 1968 and 1981, and who, despite the criticisms meted out to him in "The Disinherited Mind", delivered himself of a ‘Geburtstagsgruß an Erich Heller’ in "Merkur" (35, 1981; pp.340–342) on the occasion of Heller’s 70th birthday.Erich Heller died on 5 November 1990 in a retirement home in Evanston, Illinois.