Arnold Schröer

Michael Martin Arnold Schröer (born November 10, 1857 in Preßburg , † October 5, 1935 in Cologne ) was an Austrian - German Anglicist and university professor who was also rector of the University of Cologne between 1922 and 1923 .

Life

After attending school, Schröer, son of the professor of literary history Karl Julius Schröer , studied English philology at the University of Vienna , Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and the University of Strasbourg and in 1879 completed his doctorate in philosophy. After his habilitation in 1882 at the University of Vienna, he accepted a professorship at the Vienna Commercial Academy in 1884 . In 1886 he took over a professorship at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg , where he taught until 1900.

Then he was a professor at the Cologne Commercial College until 1919 and in 1911 published a revised and expanded new edition of a two-volume dictionary entitled English-German and German-English dictionary . In 1919 he took over the chair for English philology at the newly founded University of Cologne, which emerged from the Cologne Commercial College, and taught there until his retirement in 1926. At the same time, he was Rector of the University of Cologne between 1922 and 1923 and gave a Rector's speech with the title "About language as art and the position of the English as a world power".

In 1875 he became a member of the Silesia Vienna fraternity .

Publications

Basics and main types of English literary history , 1900
Elementary New English Grammar , 1909
English-German and German-English dictionary , 2 volumes, 1911
New English Pronunciation Dictionary , 1913
From the early days of English philology. I. Personal memories and impressions , in: Germanisch Romanische Monatsschrift 15 (1925), pp. 32–51

literature

H. Koziol: Schröer Arnold. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 11, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-7001-2803-7 , p. 238.

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 471.

personal data
SURNAME	Schröer, Arnold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schröer, Michael Martin Arnold (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian-German English studies and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH	November 10, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pressburg
DATE OF DEATH	October 5, 1935
Place of death	Cologne

[1] Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 471.