Sauer, August#
Sauer, August, b. Wiener Neustadt (Lower Austria), Oct. 12, 1855, d. Prague (Czech Republic), Sept. 17, 1926, literary historian. 1879 habilitation at Vienna University; lecturer Lemberg (Lvív), from 1883 professor at Graz University, from 1886 in Prague. Worked mainly on the literature of the 18th and 19th centuries, editor of a critical historical edition of "Saemtliche Werke von F. Grillparzer" (42 vols., 1909-1948). Founded the magazine "Euphorion".
Further works#
Kulturpolitische Reden und Schriften, ed. by J. Pfitzner, 1928; Gesammelte Schriften, 2 vols., 1933/41. - Ed.: F. Raimund, Saemtliche Werke, 1881 (with C. Glossy); Goethe und Oesterreich, 2 vols., 1902/1904; A. Stifter, Saemtliche Werke, 24 vols., 1904-1939 (continued by. F. Hiller and G. Wilhelm).Literature#
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