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See also:SCHERR, JOHANNES (1817—1886) , See also:German See also:man of letters and novelist, was See also:born at Hohenrechberg in the See also:kingdom of See also:Wurttemberg on the 3rd of See also:October 1817. After studying See also:philosophy and See also:history at the university of See also:Tubingen (1837—1840), he became See also:master in a school conducted by his See also:brother See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas in See also:Winterthur. In 1843 he removed to See also:Stuttgart, and, entering the See also:political See also:arena with a pamphlet Wurttemberg See also:im Jahr 1843, was elected in 1848 a member of the Wurttemberg See also:House of Deputies; became See also:leader of the democratic party in See also:south See also:Germany and, in See also:con-sequence of his agitation for See also:parliamentary reform in 1849, was obliged. to take See also:refuge in See also:Switzerland to avoid See also:arrest. Condemned in contumaciam to fifteen years' hard labour, he established himself in See also:Zurich as Privatdozent in 185o, but removed in 1852 to Winterthur. In 186o he was appointed See also:professor of history and Helvetian literature at the Polytechnicum in Zurich, in which See also:city he died on the 21st of See also:November 1886.
Scherr was a voluminous writer in the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field of See also:historical investigation into the See also:civilization, literature, and See also:manners and customs of his See also:country. His See also:works have largely a political See also:bias, but are characterized by clearness of exposition and careful See also:research. Noteworthy among his books are the following: Geschichte der deutschen Kultur and Sitte (1852—1853, new ed. 1897); See also:Schiller and See also:seine Zeit (1859, new ed. 1876); Geschichte der deutschen Frauenwell (186o, 4th ed. 1879); Allgemeine Geschichte der Literatur (1851, 9th ed. 1895—1896); Geschichte der englischen Literatur (1854, 2nd ed. 1883); See also:Blucher, seine Zeit and sein Leben (1862, 4th ed. 1887). Scherr also wrote the humorous Sommertagebuch See also:des weiland Dr Gastrosophiae, Jeremia Sauerampfer (1873); as a novelist he published the historical novels, Schiller (1856), and See also:Michel, Geschichte eines Deutschen unserer Zeit (1858) which have passed through several See also:editions.
With the exception of some of his stories (Novellenbuch, to vols. 1873—1877) Scherr's works have not appeared in a collected edition.
End of Article: SCHERR, JOHANNES (1817—1886)
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