Johann Karl Rösler

Johann Karl Rösler (born February 3, 1861 in Sächsisch-Regen , Austrian Empire , † June 10, 1944 in Sibiu , Kingdom of Romania ) was a Romanian author , translator and teacher from Transylvania .

Life

Rösler graduated from high school in Schäßburg , after which he studied theology and German in Vienna and Bern . In February 1886 he started his first job as a teacher in Sibiu . From November 1890 until his retirement in 1926, Rösler worked at the Evangelical Untergymnasium in Sächsisch-Regen, most recently as a "professor". Here he taught the Hungarian and German language, geography, history, religion and natural history.

Publications (selection)

• In 1889, under his pseudonym "RHvR" (Hanno Rösler von Reen), the first poems in Reen dialect appeared in the Transylvanian Volksfreund .
• Further poems followed in the "Festschrift for the inauguration of the grammar school building in Reen, Saxony" from 1893.
• The plot and characters in Lessing's “Emilia Galotti”. Annual report of the Protestant grammar school AB in Sächsisch-Regen 1896/97. Program of the four-year Evangelical High School AB and the associated teaching institutions in Szászrégen (Saxon-Regen). Krafft, 1897.
• Catalog of the library of the Evangelical High School AB in Sächsisch-Regen (Szászrégen). Sibiu 1907.
• Ottó Herman : The benefits and harm of birds . Translated by Rösler, Gera-Reuss 1901.

literature

• Carsten Gansel , Birka Siwczyk: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's “Emilia Galotti” in the school cultural area (1830–1914). V&R unipress GmbH, 2015, ISBN 3-84710-383-0 , p. 328.
• R. Hörler: The dialect art poetry of the Transylvanian Saxons. Sibiu 1915.

Web links

• Oswald Otto Kessler: History of the Transylvanian-Saxon poetry. Part 1. Munich 2004.