!!!Beer, Adolf

b. Prostějov, Czech Republic (then Prossnitz), Feb. 27, 1831, 
d. Vienna, May 7, 1902, historian, liberal politician. 1868 professor 
at the University of Technology in Vienna. 1868 he proposed to the 
Council of Education that the  Realschulen offering basic secondary 
education and vocational training be transformed into schools with 
more academic orientation. As a ministerial civil servant he drafted 
the Imperial Education Law (Reichsvolksschulgesetz). 1873-1897 member 
of the Reichsrat. As a historian he focused mainly on the era of Maria 
Theresia and Joseph II.

!Works
Allg. Geschichte des Welthandels, vols. I-III/2, 1860-1884; Die 
Fortschritte des Unterrichtswesens in den Culturstaaten Europas, 
1867/1868 (with F. Hochegger).

!Literature
F. Stransky, A. B. als Politiker und Historiker, 
doctoral thesis, Vienna 1948; OeBL.



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