Robert Siegfried Nagel

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Robert Siegfried Nagel (born September 28, 1875 in Vienna ; † January 23, 1945 there ) was an Austrian teacher, translator and writer.

Life

Nagel grew up in simple, secure circumstances and graduated from the Piarist High School in July 1894, where he had already worked on poetic work. In Vienna he studied German, among others with Richard Heinzel (old German language and literature) and Jakob Minor (modern literature). With friends he founded the youth theater association in 1896 . In 1897 he converted from the Mosaic to the Roman Catholic faith. 1898 Dr. phil. He received his doctorate in 1899/1900 as a supplement in Brno. In 1900 he passed the teaching examinations for German language and classical philology and then worked as a high school professor in Istrian Pola , which is mostly inhabited by Italians , where he lived in seclusion and devoted himself to his studies. With legal effect from September 1, 1904, he was awarded an apprenticeship at the Staats-Realschule in Steyr (1906/07 and from September 25, 1908 also secondary teacher for Latin), where the young Adolf Hitler was among his students in German . Here he also published the magazine Widerhall . As a result of an illness, he was given leave of absence from January 4, 1911 until the end of the 1910/11 school year. For the duration of the school year 1914/15 he was “assigned to the service” at the State High School in Linz. Later he is said to have also taught in Vienna.

In 1902 he published the major works of German literature , and in 1907 the first German literature atlas. From 1916 he worked as a freelance writer and literary historian. He also translated works, mainly by August Strindberg .

Publications

  • A terrible day ; 1896
  • Austrian Poet Remembrance Days ; 1906
  • Matura questions from German literary history ; 1907

Web links

supporting documents

  1. "... announces the departure from the Mosaic faith" ; P. 422
  2. ↑ Annual report of the kk Staats-Realschule in Steyr Published at the end of the academic year; Pp. 49, 59
  3. http://www.literaturkritik.de/public/rezension.php?rez_id=12586