!!!Wimmer, Gottlieb August

b. Vienna, Aug. 20, 1791, 
d. Vienna, May 12, 1863; Protestant minister, founder of schools, 
author of books on geography for the general public. Established a 
school centre at Oberschuetzen, Burgenland (three-year primary school 
and lower secondary school) and, in 1845, a training institution for 
pauper school teachers (the first four-year teacher training 
institution in Austria). Was forced to emigrate in 1848 because he 
supported the Hungarian rebels; returned to Vienna in 1863.

!Literature
B. H. Zimmermann, G. A. W. 1791-1863, 1965; 
Evangelische Superintendentialgem. A.B. Bgld. (ed.), Evangelisch im 
Bgld., 1981.



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