August Sauer (12 October 1855, in

Wiener Neustadt Wiener Neustadt (; Lower_Austria.html" ;"title=".e. Lower Austria">.e. Lower Austria , ) is a city located south of Vienna, in the state of Lower Austria, in northeast Austria. It is a self-governed city and the seat of the district administr ...

– 17 September 1926, in

Prague Prague ( ; ) is the capital and List of cities and towns in the Czech Republic, largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia. Prague, located on the Vltava River, has a population of about 1.4 million, while its P ...

) was an Austrian

Germanist German studies is an academic field that researches, documents and disseminates German language, German literature, literature, and culture in its historic and present forms. Academic departments of German studies therefore often focus on Culture ...

and

literary historian The history of literature is the historical development of writings in prose or poetry that attempt to provide entertainment or education to the reader, as well as the development of the literary techniques used in the communication of these pie ...

. He is known for his publication of collected works by

Franz Grillparzer Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer (15 January 1791 – 21 January 1872) was an Austrian writer who was considered to be the leading Austrian dramatist of the 19th century. His plays were and are frequently performed at the Burgtheater in Vienna. He ...

, Ferdinand Raimund,

Adalbert Stifter Adalbert Stifter (; 23 October 1805 – 28 January 1868) was a Bohemian- Austrian writer, poet, painter, and pedagogue. He was notable for the vivid natural landscapes depicted in his writing and has long been popular in the German-speaking wo ...

, et al. He studied philology and history at the

University of Vienna The University of Vienna (, ) is a public university, public research university in Vienna, Austria. Founded by Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria, Duke Rudolph IV in 1365, it is the oldest university in the German-speaking world and among the largest ...

as a pupil of

Franz Brentano Franz Clemens Honoratus Hermann Josef Brentano (; ; 16 January 1838 – 17 March 1917) was a German philosopher and psychologist. His 1874 '' Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint'', considered his magnum opus, is credited with having reintrod ...

Ottokar Lorenz Ottokar Lorenz (17 September 1832 – 13 May 1904) was an Austrian-German historian and genealogist. He was born in Iglau (now Jihlava, Czech Republic) and died in Jena. He was the father of chemist Richard Lorenz (1863-1929). He studied philol ...

and Richard Heinzel. In 1877 he received his doctorate under the direction of Karl Tomaschek, then furthered his education in

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as a student of

Karl Müllenhoff Karl Viktor Müllenhoff (born September 8, 1818, in Marne, Duchy of Holstein; died February 19, 1884, in Berlin) was a German philologist who specialized in Germanic studies. Biography He was born in Marne, Holstein as the second son of merc ...

and Wilhelm Scherer. From 1879 he worked as an instructor and director of the seminar for German philology at the University of Lemberg, and in 1883 became an associate professor of German language and literature at the

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. In 1886, he succeeded Jakob Minor at the University of Prague, where in 1892 he became a full professor of German language and literature. At Prague, he served as dean (1897/98) and university rector (1907/08). In 1894 he founded the literary history journal '' Euphorion''.

Selected works

* ''Studien zur Goethe-Philologie'' (with Jakob Minor, 1880) – Studies of

Goethe Johann Wolfgang (von) Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath who is widely regarded as the most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a wide-ranging influence on Western literature, literary, Polit ...

-philology. * ''Ferdinand Raimund's sämmtliche Werke'' (with Karl Glossy; 3 volumes, 1881) – Ferdinand Raimund's collected works. * ''Deutsche Litteraturdenkmale des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts'' (with Bernhard Seuffert; multi-volume, 1881–1924) – German literary monuments of the 18th and 19th centuries. * ''Wiener neudrucke'' (11 volumes, 1883–86) – Vienna reprints. * ''Ewald von Kleist's werke'' (3 volumes, 1883) – Ewald Christian von Kleist's works. * ''Gedichte von Gottfried August Bürger'' (1884) – Poetry of

Gottfried August Bürger Gottfried August Bürger (31 December 1747 – 8 June 1794) was a German poet. His ballads were very popular in Germany. His most noted ballad, ''Lenore (ballad), Lenore'', found an audience beyond readers of the German language in an English l ...

. * ''Grillparzer's sämmtliche Werke'' (4th edition, 16 volumes, 1887) – Franz Grillparzer's collected works. * ''Adalbert Stifters sämmtliche Werke'' (24 volumes, 1901–) – Adalbert Stifter's collected works. * ''Gesammelte reden und aufsätze zur geschichte der literatur in Österreich und Deutschland'' (1903) – Collected lectures and essays on the history of literature in Austria and Germany.HathiTrust Digital Library
(published works)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sauer, August 1855 births 1926 deaths People from Wiener Neustadt University of Vienna alumni Academic staff of the University of Graz Academic staff of Charles University Austrian Germanists Austrian literary historians Writers from Austria-Hungary