!!!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.



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