Richard Groner

Richard Groner (born October 3, 1853 in Vienna ; † June 15, 1931 ibid) was an Austrian local historian and journalist.

Life

The civil servant's son joined the later Imperial and Royal Austrian State Railways in 1871 , but also found time for journalistic activities with the family journal (from 1875) and the Interesting Journal (from 1881). Together with Ludwig Eisenberg , he founded the biographical yearbook Das Geistige Wien , which was published annually from 1889. He became known through his Vienna Lexicon Vienna as it was , which appeared in the first edition in 1919 and only dealt with the period up to the Congress of Vienna . The third, expanded edition was edited by Otto Erich Deutsch after Groner's death (1934); The sixth edition came out in 1966. In 1974 Felix Czeike and his colleagues published the Great Groner Vienna Lexicon , which still had Groner's name in the title, but was based on Groner's work only in its topographical part.

Also Groners wife Auguste (born Kopallik; 1850-1929) was active as a writer.

Tomb at Hietzingen cemetery

He was buried in an honorary grave in the Hietzinger Friedhof (group 4, number 88).

plant

• partly with Ludwig Eisenberg: The spiritual Vienna. Lexicon of artists and writers. Daberkow et al., Vienna 1889-1893, ZDB -ID 1308834-8 .
• Vienna as it was. An information book about old Viennese buildings, house signs, squares and streets, as well as all kinds of other interesting facts from the city's past . Waldheim-Eberle, Vienna 1919.

literature

• Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna. Volume 2: De-Gy. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-218-00544-2 , p. 608.
• Groner, Richard. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 72.

Web links

• Entry on Richard Groner in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• Entry on Richard Groner in the Austria-Forum  (in the Austrian personal encyclopedia of the First and Second Republic )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Richard Groner in the search for the deceased at friedhoefewien.at
2. ↑ The spiritual Vienna. Lexicon of artists and writers. Supplement band. 1892. online at archive.org; Spiritual Vienna. Lexicon of artists and writers. Volume 2. 1893. online at archive.org.