Karl Wilhelm Fischer (folklorist)

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Karl Wilhelm Fischer (born September 18, 1888 in Bilin , † March 15, 1970 in Grafing near Munich ) was an Austrian teacher , folklorist and author .

Life

Born the son of a civil servant, Fischer attended the Jesuit grammar school in Mariaschein and the Cistercian grammar school in Komotau before studying German in Prague . During his studies he became a member of the Thessalia Prague fraternity in 1909 . In 1915 he passed his teaching exams for German and French at secondary schools. In 1916 he was in August Sauer to Dr. phil. PhD .

For a short time he worked as a study assessor and high school teacher at the Old Realgymnasium in Prague. From 1914 until his expulsion in 1945 he was a high school teacher at the state reform high school in Hohenelbe in the Giant Mountains . He dealt with folklore and was a co-founder of the Giant Mountains Museum and its library.

In 1947 he became a teacher of German and French at a school in Grafing. On site, he played a key role in setting up the secondary school there , which he headed from 1952 until his retirement in 1958. He was a co-founder of the Association for the Maintenance of the Grafing Realschule . He was the founder of the Grafing City Museum , which he directed. He was the founder and director of the adult education center in Grafing, member of the board of the working group for local history and second chairman of the tourist association.

He was married and had a daughter.

Publications (selection)

  • Folklore and bourgeois culture at Schiller. Dissertation University of Prague, 1916.
  • The Passion Play in the city of Hohenelbe. Prague 1920.
  • German literature in northeastern Bohemia. 1924.
  • Publisher: Yearbook of the German Riesengebirgs-Verein (seat in Hohenelbe) .
  • History of the Grafing grammar school. Grafing 1965.

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 195–196.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 50 years of the Schulverein Gymnasium Grafing 1953–2003. P. 22
  2. ↑ 100 years of high school Hohenelbe / Vrchlabí (= publications of the Riesengebirgs-Museum in Marktoberdorf : Issue 8, 2010 - published by Heimatkreis Hohenelbe / Riesengebirge e.V.) p. 20.
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Karl Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian teacher, folklorist and author
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Bilin
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1970
Place of death Grafing near Munich