Franz Robert Schöni

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Franz Robert Schöni (born March 21, 1841 in Erlach , Canton Bern , † March 28, 1876 ibid) was a Swiss poet and teacher .

life and work

Franz Robert Schöni was born in 1841 as the son of a court president on Lake Biel . After attending the Cantonal School in Bern , he studied law at the University of Applied Sciences there in 1862. This was followed by a two-year stay at the University of Heidelberg , where he first devoted himself to philosophical and philological studies, and later to studying English and Spanish literature. In 1868 he stayed at the University of Tübingen , where he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. In the spring of the same year he went on a journey of several months to southern France and Catalonia . Back in Switzerland , he completed his habilitation in 1870 as a private lecturer at the Bern University and one year later became a teacher of German language and literature at the grammar school of the Bern canton school.

In 1871, Schöni's book Der Stifter von Hofwyl: Fellenberg’s life and work about Philipp Emanuel von Fellenberg was published by J. Allemann Verlag in Bern . In 1873 he then produced his poetry volume under the simple title of poems , published by Fiala-Verlag in Bern for attention.

One week after his 35th birthday, Franz Robert Schöni died in 1876 in his birthplace Erlach.

Books (selection)

Single volumes

  • The founder of Hofwyl: Fellenberg's life and work. Bern 1871.
  • Poems. Poetry. Bern 1873.

literature

  • Franz Robert Schöni. In: Magazine for Foreign Literature, Volumes 83–84. 1873, p. 99 ( books.google.de ).
  • Franz Robert Schöni. In: Sheets for literary entertainment. 1874, p. 281 ( books.google.de ).
  • Schöni, Franz Robert. In: Franz Brümmer: Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present. Volume 6: Riſch to Spiller. 6th, completely revised and greatly increased edition, Philipp Reclam jun., Leipzig 1913, p. 289 ( deutschestextarchiv.de ):
  • Franz Robert Schöni. In: Gertrud Züricher : Swiss poetry from Albrecht von Haller to the present. Huber 1944, p. 112.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Robert Schöni In: Franz Brümmer : Brümmer, Franz: Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present. Vol. 6. 6. Edition Leipzig 1913, page 289.
  2. ^ Franz Robert Schöni. In: Our Time: Yearbook for Conversations Lexicon. Volume 30. Leipzig, 1876, p. 39.
personal data
SURNAME Schöni, Franz Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss poet and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Erlach , Canton of Bern
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1876
Place of death Erlach , Canton of Bern