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SCHERER, WILHELM (1841-1886)

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SCHERER, WILHELM (1841-1886) , See also:German philologist and historian of literature, was See also:born at Schonborn in See also:Lower See also:Austria on the 26th of See also:April 1841. He was educated at the See also:academic gymnasium at See also:Vienna and afterwards at the university, where he was the favourite See also:pupil of the distinguished Germanist, Karl Viktor Mi.illenhoff (1818—1884). Having taken the degree of See also:doctor philosophiae, he became Privatdozent for German See also:language and literature in 1864. In 1868 he was appointed See also:ordinary See also:professor, and in 1872 received a See also:call in a like capacity to See also:Strassburg, and in 1877 to See also:Berlin, where in 1884 he was made member of the See also:Academy of Sciences. He died at Berlin on the 6th of See also:August 1886. Scherer's See also:literary activity falls into three categories: in Vienna he was the philologist, at Strassburg the professor of literature and in Berlin the author. His earliest See also:work was a See also:biography of the See also:great philologist See also:Jakob See also:Grimm (1865, and ed. 1885) ; he next, in See also:con-junction with his former teacher Mullenhoff, published Denkmaler deutscher Poesie and See also:Prose aus dem 8. bis 12. Jahrhundert (1864, 3rd ed. 1892). His first great work was, however, Zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache (Berlin, 1868; 3rd ed., 189o), being a See also:history of the German language with especial reference to phonetic See also:laws. He contributed the See also:section on Alsatian literature to O.

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des Elsasses (1871, 3rd ed. 1886). Other important See also:works are Geistliche Poeten der deutschen Kaiserzeit (Strassburg, 1874–1875) ; Geschichte der deutschen Dichtung See also:im zz. and 12. Jahrhundert (1875); and Vortrage and Aufsatze zur Geschichte des geistigen Lebens in Deutschland and Osterreich (1874). Scherer's best-known work is his history of German literature, Geschichte der deutschen Literatur (Berlin, 1883; Ioth ed., 1905; See also:English See also:translation by Mrs F. C. See also:Conybeare, 1883; new ed., 1906). This work is distinguished by the clearness with which details are co-ordinated with a See also:general and comprehensive survey of German literature from the beginning to the See also:death of See also:Goethe. Besides many other philological See also:treatises, Scherer wrote largely on Goethe (Aus Goethes Fruhzeit 1879; Aufsatze fiber Goethe, 1886), and took an active See also:part in the See also:foundation of the Goethe archives at See also:Weimar. A small See also:treatise on Poetik, a biography of Karl Miillenhoff, and two volumes of Kleine Schriften were published after his death. See V. Basch, Wilhelm Scherer et la philologie See also:allemande (See also:Paris, 1889), and the See also:article by Eduard See also:Schroder in Allgemeine deutsche Biographie.

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