Josef Schramek

Josef Schramek (born March 30, 1856 in Chrudim ; † October 16, 1940 in Winterberg ( Vimperk ) in the Bohemian Forest) worked as a folklorist and writer in addition to his teaching profession.

Josef Schramek

Josef Schramek was born in Chrudim, where his father was a kk cadastral officer at the time. When Schramek was 1 ½ years old, his father was transferred to Bukovina and later to Galicia , where Schramek attended elementary school himself. Having returned to Bohemia in 1868, Schramek's father sent his son to the lower secondary school in Iglau and, after completing the same, to the fifth secondary school in Prague. From there Schramek came to Königgrätz, where his parents lived at the time, and there entered the kk surveying office as an intern. Six months later, Schramek came to the engineering school in Mittweida in Saxony and, after graduating, to F. Ringhofer in Prague, where he remained for two years as a technical officer. Dismissed in 1875 for lack of work, Schramek became a substitute teacher in Eisenstein, and after taking an entrance exam, Schramek attended the fourth year of the Budweiser teacher training institute. After completing the same, he worked for four years in the Brüx district and then until his retirement as a teacher, headmaster and senior teacher in Stubenbach, Großhaid and Freiung in the Bohemian Forest.

Works

• The Bohemian Forest Farmhouse (1908)
• The Bohemian Forest Farmer , Appendix: The Bohemian Forest Woodcutter (1915)
• 42 weeks of local studies at school (1916)
• From the Arber to the Plöckenstein. 50 funny stories from the Bohemian Forest (Regensburg 1928)

Numerous publications on folklore and literature in newspapers and magazines

literature

• Johann Peter: Josef Schramek, the humorist and local historian of the Bohemian Forest , in: Südböhmische Volkszeitung 22nd year May 21st 1922
• Willibald Böhm: Josef Schramek, an honorary sheet for his 80th cradle festival , in: Südböhmische Zeitung, No. 13, March 29, 1936