!!!Scherer, Georg

Scherer, Georg, b. Schwaz (Tyrol), Nov. 3, 1540 (1539?), 
d. Linz (Upper Austria), Nov. 26, 1605, court chaplain and missionary, 
Jesuit. 1567-1594 chaplain at St. Stephen´s Cathedral, 1577-1600 
court chaplain at the Vienna Hofburgkapelle and Rector at the Vienna 
Jesuit college (1590-1594). Precursor of  Prokop von Templins and  
Abraham a Sancta Clara; as a follower of the counter-reformation he 
developed a style of preaching that people could easily understand.

!Works
numerous collections of sermons and religious writings.

!Literature
G. Mierau, Das publizist. Werk von G. S., doctoral 
thesis, Vienna 1968; W. Welzig et al. (eds.), Katalog gedruckter 
dt.-sprach. kath. Predigtsammlungen, vol. 1, 1984.



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