Career
After graduating from high school, Meyer-Clason worked as a commercial clerk in Bremen and from 1936 as an independent businessman in Argentina and Brazil. From 1942 to 1944, he was interned in Brazil as an illegal alien. In 1955 he went back to Germany and worked as a freelance book editor in Munich.
From the sixties, his work concentrated on working on translations of Portuguese, Spanish and Latin American books
From 1969 to 1976 Meyer-Clason acted as head of the Goethe Institute in Lisbon. As of 2008, Meyer-Clason was living in Munich and in 2011 he turned 101.