!!!Scherer, Wilhelm b. Schoenborn (municipality of Goellersdorf, Lower Austria), April 26, 1841, d. Berlin (Germany), Aug. 6, 1886, professor of German. 1868-1871 professor at Vienna University, 1872-1876 at the Universities of Strasbourg and Berlin. Tried to apply the scientific concept of cause and effect to the arts, assuming that German literature developed in phases; the "S. School" influenced German studies even after the turn of the century. !Works Ueber den Ursprung der dt. Literature, 1864; Zur Geschichte der dt. Sprache, 1868; Dt. Studien, 2 vols., 1870/1874; Geschichte der dt. Literatur, 9 parts, 1880-1883; Poetik, 1888; Kleine Schriften, ed. by K. Burdach and E. Schmidt, 2 vols., 1893. !Literature J. Fohrmann, Das Projekt der deutschen Literaturgeschichte, 1988; OeBL. %%language [Back to the Austrian Version|AEIOU/Scherer,_Wilhelm|class='wikipage austrian'] %% [{FreezeArticle author='AEIOU' template='Lexikon_1995_englisch'}] [{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW comment All}][{ALLOW edit FreezeAdmin}]