SCHERR, JOHANNES (18171886)

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SCHERR, JOHANNES (18171886) , German man of letters and novelist, was born at Hohenrechberg in the kingdom of Wurttemberg on the 3rd of October 1817. After studying philosophy and history at the university of Tubingen (18371840), he became master in a school conducted by his brother

Thomas

in Winterthur. In 1843 he removed to

Stuttgart

STUTTGART

, and, entering the political arena with a pamphlet Wurttemberg im Jahr 1843, was elected in 1848 a member of the Wurttemberg

House

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

of Deputies; became leader of the democratic party in

south

SOUTH
SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

Germany and, in con-sequence of his agitation for parliamentary reform in 1849, was obliged. to take

refuge

REFUGE

in Switzerland to avoid arrest. Condemned in contumaciam to fifteen years' hard labour, he established himself in Zurich as Privatdozent in 185o, but removed in 1852 to Winterthur. In 186o he was appointed professor of history and Helvetian literature at the Polytechnicum in Zurich, in which city he died on the 21st of November 1886.

Scherr

SCHERR, JOHANNES (1817—1886)

was a voluminous writer in the field of historical investigation into the civilization, literature, and manners and customs of his country. His works have largely a political bias, but are characterized by clearness of exposition and careful research. Noteworthy among his books are the following: Geschichte der deutschen Kultur and Sitte (18521853, new ed. 1897); Schiller and seine Zeit (1859, new ed. 1876); Geschichte der deutschen Frauenwell (186o, 4th ed. 1879); Allgemeine Geschichte der Literatur (1851, 9th ed. 18951896); Geschichte der englischen Literatur (1854, 2nd ed. 1883);

Blucher

BLUCHER, GEBHARD LEBERECHT VON (1742—1819)

, seine Zeit and sein Leben (1862, 4th ed. 1887).

Scherr

SCHERR, JOHANNES (1817—1886)

also wrote the humorous Sommertagebuch des weiland Dr Gastrosophiae, Jeremia Sauerampfer (1873); as a novelist he published the historical novels, Schiller (1856), and Michel, Geschichte eines Deutschen unserer Zeit (1858) which have passed through several editions.
With the exception of some of his stories (Novellenbuch, to vols. 18731877) Scherr's works have not appeared in a collected edition.

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