Johann Georg Fischer

Johann Georg Fischer ( born October 25, 1816 in United - sweet; † May 4, 1897 in Stuttgart ) was a German poet and playwright.

Life

His father, a carpenter, died early. After visiting the Teachers' College in Tübingen from 1831 to 1833 he was an assistant teacher and usher in different places. He joined in his studies of the Tübingen Royal Society Roigel. After further training for secondary school teachers with the following duty stations he came from 1845 to the elementary school to Stuttgart. He became their manager, as he took over as head of the commercial training school Stuttgart transmitted. In 1857 he received his doctorate in Tübingen Dr. phil. From 1862 to 1885 he was a professor and later as its director at the Stuttgart Upper secondary school.

Johann Georg Fischer developed in his Stuttgart Time a celebrated poet and playwright. Especially his 24 speeches at birthdays Friedrich Schiller made ​​him popular. For his contribution to the establishment of the local National Schiller Museum, the renovation of Schiller's birthplace and the establishment of the Schiller monument in 1876, the city of Marbach am Neckar named him an honorary citizen. His seventieth birthday celebrated Stuttgart as a folk festival.

Even in his hometown, he received an honorary citizen.

Highly honored Johann Georg Fischer died on 4 May 1897 age 80 in Stuttgart. His resting place in the Prague cemetery is maintained by the City of Stuttgart as an honorary grave.

Fischer's birthplace in Sweet was strongly pulled in a fire affected. This led the City Council and the local council to demolish the building because there were no concerns also from the Heritage Office and the building had already been changed several times in its original form.