Karl Julius Schröer

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Karl Julius Schröer

Karl Julius Schröer (born January 11, 1825 in Preßburg , Austrian Empire , † December 16, 1900 in Vienna ) was an Austrian linguist and literary scholar . He is the son of Tobias Gottfried Schröer .

Life

Karl Julius Schröer studied literature and linguistics, among others from 1843 to 1846 in Leipzig , Halle and Berlin . After 1849 he was professor of German language and literature in Pest . Then he returned to Pressburg in 1851 and accepted a teaching post.

Because of the political developments, Karl Julius Schröer felt he had to leave Hungary, and in 1860 he went to Vienna. From 1861 to 1866 he was director of the United Evangelical Schools on Karlsplatz . In 1866 he became professor of literary history at the Vienna University of Technology .

In the following years Schröer carried out research on German nationality in Hungary. As part of this research he discovered the popular Christmas games of Oberufer in the immediate vicinity of Pressburg. He collected manuscripts, made critical comparisons and published the book German Christmas Games from Hungary in 1857/58 . Many, but especially Schröer's later pupil in Vienna, Rudolf Steiner , who founded the Waldorf Schools after the First World War , in which the Oberuferer Christmas games are performed to this day, relied on this work .

The Goethe Monument in Vienna initiated by Schröer

In Vienna Schröer particularly distinguished himself as a Goethe researcher . In 1878 he co-founded the “Wiener Goetheverein”, whose chronicle he published in 1886. He commented on Goethe's works and was particularly concerned with Faust research, which he presented in a two-volume Faust edition. He published Goethe's dramas in six volumes. Finally, Schröer endeavored to create a Goethe monument in Vienna ; it was put out to tender in 1894 and created by Edmund Hellmann . It was revealed one day after Schröer's death.

His grandson was the painter and sculptor Karl Julius Heinrich Revy .

Fonts (in selection)

  • Poems . Zamarsky, Vienna 1856.
  • German Christmas games from Hungary . Braumüller, Vienna 1862.
  • Attempt to represent the German dialects of the Hungarian mountainous region with language samples and explanations . Imperial Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1863.
  • The sounds of the German mouth species of the Hungarian mountainous region . Imperial Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1864.
  • Dictionary of the dialect of Gottschee . Gerold, Vienna 1870.
  • Alphart's death. In the new form of Karl Julius Schröer. Reclam, Leipzig 1874.
  • The farmhouse with its furnishings and equipment . KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1874.
  • The Germans in Austria-Hungary and their significance for the monarchy . Habel, Berlin 1879.
  • Faust by Goethe. With introduction and ongoing explanation, edited by KJ Schröer. 2 vols., Verlag Gebr. Henninger, Heilbronn 1881.

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SURNAME Schröer, Karl Julius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES K Julius (pseudonym); Karl Julius (pseudonym); Oeser, Julius the Elder J. (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian linguist and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Pressburg
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 1900
Place of death Vienna