Karl Julius Schröer

Karl Julius Schroer (* January 11, 1825 in Bratislava, Empire Austria, † December 16, 1900 in Vienna ) was an Austrian language and literary scholars.

Life

Karl Julius Schroer studied literature and linguistics, among others, from 1843 to 1846 in Leipzig, Halle and Berlin. After 1849 he was professor of German language and literature in Pest. Then he went back to Bratislava in 1851 and adopted a school teacher.

Due to the political development said Karl Julius Schroer Hungary to leave, and he went in 1860 to Vienna. He was from 1861 to 1866 director of the United Protestant schools at Karlsplatz. In 1866 he became professor of literary history at the Technical University of Vienna.

In the following years Schroer operational research into the German race in Hungary. As part of this research, he discovered in the immediate vicinity of Bratislava, the popular Christmas games from upper shore. He collected manuscripts, presented in text-critical comparisons and published 1857/58 the book German Christmas Games from Hungary. In this work, supported many, but especially Schröers later student in Vienna, Rudolf Steiner, the Waldorf schools founded after the First World War, in which up to now the top Uferer Christmas Games are listed.

In Vienna, Schroer was doing out in particular as Goethe scholar. He was co-founder in 1878 of the "Wiener Goethe association" whose chronicle he published in 1886. He commented Goethe's works and dealt especially with the fist research, which he presented in a two-volume edition of thumb. Goethe's dramas, he published in six volumes. Finally, Schroer tried to create a Goethe monument in Vienna; it was in 1894 publicly advertised and created by Edmund Hellmann. One day before Schröers death could be revealed.