Anton Scherer

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Anton Scherer (born July 19, 1922 in Obrovac ( German  Obrowatz or Oberndorf ), Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes ; † January 14, 2015 in Graz , Austria ) was a teacher , literary historian and author .

life and work

Scherer was born as the oldest of eight siblings in Obrovac, today a district of Bačka Palanka (Plankenburg), in the southern Batschka , but grew up in the neighboring village of Mladenovo (Bukin). He attended high school and teacher training college in Vrbas (Werbass); After stations in Novi Sad (Neusatz), Budapest and Vienna , he passed his Abitur in Berlin . He studied German , Slavic , history , geography , philosophy , art history and folklore at the universities of Vienna , Berlin , Innsbruck and Graz .

In 1946/1947 Scherer passed the teaching examination for German and Serbo-Croatian at the University of Graz. He then worked as a research assistant at the "Seminar for German Philology" . From 1948 to 1982 he was appointed lecturer there for the history of Austrian-Southeast European cultural relations . In 1955 he received his doctorate in philosophy. As a lecturer and later professor, he taught at several grammar schools in Graz from 1949 to 1982.

Scherer also managed the Danube Swabian Bibliographical Archive in Graz.

Publications (selection)

  • Johann Eugen Probst, personality, work and cultural criticism of a Danube-Swabian-Austrian poet , dissertation, Munich 1954
  • Creative Danube Swabians. Self-published, 1957
  • Those who didn't want to die: Danube Swabian literature from Lenau to the present day; a book about the life of Germans and their neighbors in Southeast Europe. Pannonia Publishing House, 1959
  • Introduction to the history of Danube Swabian literature. Self-published, 1960
  • Danube Swabian bibliography. 1935-1955. Southeast German Cultural Work, 1966
  • Danube Swabian bibliography. 1955-1965. Southeast German cultural work, 1974
  • Southeastern European dissertations, 1918–1960: A bibliography of German, Austrian and Swiss university publications. Böhlau Verlag, Graz / Vienna / Cologne 1968
  • Danube Swabian place-name book for the formerly and partly still German-populated places in Hungary, Yugoslavia without Slovenia and Western Romania Banat and Sathmar. Working group of Danube Swabian family researchers V., 1980

Awards

literature

  • Entry Anton Scherer , Kürschner's Deutscher Gelehrtenkalender , 12th edition N – Z and register for 1976, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin-New York, pp. 2745–2746, or for 1992, 16th edition S – Z, pp. 3177–78 .
  • Ferdinand Leindl: Anton Scherer 50 years old. Südostdeutsche Vierteljahresblätter, No. 21/1972, pp. 160–164.
  • The Graz professor Anton Scherer, one of the most outstanding Danube Swabian scientists today. Publications. l. The accent. Münchner Studien, in: Donum Indogermanicum, Festgabe for Anton Scherer on his 70th birthday, Heidelberg.
  • Josef Schramm : Prof Dr. Anton Scherer. Personality and work. For his 75th birthday. Graz 1999. Donauschwäbische Contributions 104.

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personal data
SURNAME Scherer, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian author and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Obrovac , Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 2015
Place of death Graz , Austria