Johannes Scherr (
October 3,
1817 in Hohenrechberg,
Württemberg -
November 21,
1886), was a
German novelist and
intellectual.After studying
philosophy and
history at the
Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen (1837-1840), he became master in a
school conducted by his brother Thomas in
Winterthur. In 1843 he removed to
Stuttgart, and, entering the political arena with a pamphlet Württemberg im Jahr 1843, was elected in
1848 a member of the
Württemberg House of Deputies; became leader of the
democratic party in south Germany and, in consequence of his agitation for parliamentary reform in 1849, was obliged, to take refuge in
Switzerland to avoid arrest. Condemned in contumaciam to fifteen years hard labor, he established himself in
Zürich as Privatdozent in 1850, but removed in 1852 to Winterthur. In 1860 he was appointed professor of history and Helvetian literature at the Polytechnicum in Zürich, in which city he died.
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