Vorzeit und mittelalter/ Das zeitalter der reformation, 1925 r.

Vorzeit und mittelalter/ Das zeitalter der reformation, 1925 r. - Johannes Scherr

Vorzeit und mittelalter s. 451, 

Das zeitalter der reformation s. 391

Johannes Scherr (3 October 1817 – 21 November 1886), was a German-born novelist and literary critic most of whose working life was spent in Switzerland.

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Biography

Scherr was born in Hohenrechberg, Württemberg. After studying philosophy and history at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen (1837-1840), he became master in a school conducted by his brother Thomas in Winterthur. In 1843 he moved to Stuttgart, and, entering the political arena with a pamphlet Württemberg im Jahr 1843, was elected in 1848 a member of the Württemberg House of Deputies; became leader of the democratic party in south Germany and, in consequence of his agitation for parliamentary reform in 1849, was obliged, to take refuge in Switzerland to avoid arrest. Condemned in contumaciam to fifteen years hard labor, he established himself in Zürich as Privatdozent in 1850, but moved in 1852 to Winterthur. In 1860 he was appointed professor of history and Helvetian literature at the Polytechnicum in Zürich, in which city he died.