Wilhelm Scheffler

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Wilhelm Scheffler (born January 21, 1847 in Dalheim, today Roschtschino (Kaliningrad, Gurjewsk) , † April 15, 1913 in Dresden ) was a German Romance writer and stenographer .

life and work

Scheffler graduated from high school in Königsberg . From 1867 he studied at the Universities of Königsberg and Breslau. In 1870 he was an interpreter and stenographer during the Franco-Prussian War . In 1871 he became a member of the Stenographic Institute in Dresden and stenographer at the Saxon State Parliament. He received his doctorate in Rostock in 1873 with the work Essai sur Ronsard et sa réforme littéraire (Dresden 1874) and habilitated in 1875 with the work Étude littéraire sur Boileau-Despréaux, sa vie et ses écrits (Posen 1876). In 1876 he became a private lecturer for French language and literature at the Polytechnic School (from 1890 Technical University ) in Dresden. From 1885 he was an associate professor there, and from 1890 until his death a full professor of French language and literature. In 1909 he founded the technical language seminar. He was the editor of numerous school editions of French classics and playwrights.

Scheffler was a city councilor in Dresden and, in 1878, a founding member of the literary association. In 1878 he founded the Dresden Society for Modern Philology.

Other works

  • The French folk poetry and legend. A contribution to the intellectual and moral history of France , 2 vols., Leipzig 1884–1885
  • New French Seminar at the Royal Polytechnic Dresden, in: Archive for the Study of Modern Languages ​​and Literatures 46, 1887, p. 126
  • (with Julius Sahr) Directory of works of art and images on Italian, French and English literary and cultural history relating to (Dante, Shakespeare, Walter Scott, Burns, Molière and Sandeau) : issued at the 3rd general German New Philologists' Day in Dresden 29 and . Sept. 30 and Oct. 1 1888, Dresden 1888
  • Saxony's Technical University of Dresden. 70 years of its development (May 1, 1828 - May 1, 1898), Dresden 1899

literature

  • Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 sv
personal data
SURNAME Scheffler, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scheffler, Guillaume
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Romanist and stenographer
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Dalheim, today Roschtschino (Kaliningrad, Gurjewsk)
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1913
Place of death Dresden