See also:

• PETER
• PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
• PETER (PEDRO)
• PETER, EPISTLES OF
• PETER, ST

PETER See also:

• PETER ROSEGGER (1843- )

ROSEGGER (1843- )  , See also:

• AUSTRIAN

Austrian poet and novelist, known down to 1894 under the See also:

• PSEUDONYM (Gr. >l ev&,vuµos, having a false name, ¢Evirls, false and ovoµa, name)

pseudonym Petri Kettenfeier, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Alpl near Krieglach in Upper See also:

• STYRIA (German, Steiermark or Steyermark)

Styria, on the 31St of See also:

• JULY

July 1843, the son of a See also:

• PEASANT (O. Fr. paysant, Mod. paysan; Lat. pagensis, belonging to the pagus or country; cf. " pagan ")

peasant . Until his seventeenth See also:

• YEAR

year he was employed as a See also:

• FARM

farm See also:

• HAND
• HAND (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Hand, Goth. handus)
• HAND, FERDINAND GOTTHELF (1786-185r)

hand and received no See also:

• REGULAR

regular school See also:

• EDUCATION

education, though he learnt See also:

• READING

reading and See also:

• WRITING
• WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

writing from a retired schoolmaster who lived near . Unfit, owing to See also:

• PHYSICAL

physical weakness, for the hard labour of See also:

• AGRICULTURE
• AGRICULTURE (from Lat. ages, field, and colere, to cultivate)
• AGRICULTURE, BOARD OF

agriculture, he was apprenticed to a journeyman tailor, and on his wanderings employed his leisure See also:

• HOURS, CANONICAL

hours in educating himself . He soon composed poems and wrote stories . Some of these productions he sent in 1864 to Dr Svoboda, the editor of the See also:

• GRAZ [GRATZ]

Graz Tagespost, who, recognizing See also:

• ROSEGGER, PETER (1843- )

Rosegger's extraordinary See also:

• TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental

talent, interested himself in the See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

young author, and with the assistance of See also:

• FRIENDS, SOCIETY
• FRIENDS, SOCIETY OF

friends enabled him to study (from 1865-69) at the Handelsakademie of Graz . In 1869, encouraged by See also:

• ROBERT
• ROBERT (1275—1343)
• ROBERT, HUBERT (1753-1808)
• ROBERT, LOUIS LEOPOLD (1794-1835)

Robert See also:

• HAMERLING, ROBERT (183o-1889)

Hamerling, Rosegger published his first See also:

• WORK

work, a See also:

• VOLUME

volume of poems in Styrian See also:

• DIALECT (from Gr. Sia stcror, conversation, manner of speaking, &aXeyec6at, to converse)

dialect, See also:

• ZITHER (Ger. Zither, Schlagzither, Streichzither; Ital. cithara)

Zither and Hackbrett, which immediately established his reputation . As a result, the provincial See also:

• DIET

diet of Styria accorded him a substantial stipendium (scholarship) for three years, which enabled him to supplement his studies by See also:

• FOREIGN

foreign travel . He now devoted himself entirely to authorship, and in 1876 founded the monthly periodical Der Heimgarten . On the occasion of the See also:

• CENTENARY (from Lat. centenarius, of or belonging to a hundred, from centeni, distributive of centum, hundred)

centenary of its reorganization the University of See also:

• HEIDELBERG

Heidelberg conferred upon him, in 1903, the honorary degree of See also:

• DOCTOR (Lat. for " teacher ")

doctor of See also:

• PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy . Rosegger is one of the most fertile authors of See also:

• RECENT

recent times . His fresh natural See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style, See also:

• SOUND
• SOUND, THE (Danish Oresund)

sound See also:

• JUDGMENT

judgment and his fascinating descriptions of Alpine scenery and the See also:

• LIFE

life of its inhabitants have made him one of the most popular authors of See also:

• AUSTRIA
• AUSTRIA, LOWER (Ger. Niederosterreich or Osterreich unter der Enns, " Austria below the river Enns ")
• AUSTRIA, UPPER (Ger. Oberosterreich or Osterreich ob der Enns, " Austria above the river Enns ")

Austria and See also:

• GERMANY
• GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)

Germany . These characteristics are displayed to See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• ADVANTAGE

advantage in See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

Die Schriften See also:

• DES

des Waldschulmeisters (1875), Aus meinem Handwerkerleben (1880), Alpengeschichten (1896), Als ich noch See also:

• JUNG, JOHANN HEINRICH (1740-1817)

jung See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

war (1895), and in the love-See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story See also:

• MANN, HORACE (1796-1859)

Mann and Weib (1879), while his See also:

• SIMPLE

simple religious mind is shown in Mein Himmelreich (1901), Erdsegen (1900) and Das ewige Licht (1897), and his See also:

• ATTACHMENT

attachment to friends in Gute Kameraden (1893) and Personliche Erinnerungen an Robert Hamerling (1891) .

Among his other See also:

• WORKS

works may be mentioned a volume of poems, Gedichte (1891), a popular See also:

• PLAY

play, Am Tage des Gerichts (1892), two books for boys, Waldferien (1887) and Waldjugend (1900), and the stories Das Siinderg ockl (1904), Wildlinge (1906) and I.N.R.I . Frohe Botschaft eines armen Sunders (1905), which has also been translated into See also:

• ENGLISH

English . He has also written several works which are autobiographical in See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character, such as Waldheimat (1873) and Mein Weltleben (1898) . Rosegger's Ausgewahlte Schriften appeared in See also:

• THIRTY

thirty volumes (1881-94) ; a popular edition (1895-1900); his Schriften in steirischer Mundart (3 vols., 1894-96) . See also A . V . Svoboda, P . K . Rosegger (1886); A . Stern, Studien zur Literatur der Gegenwart (1895); and H . See also:

• MOBIUS, AUGUST FERDINAND (1790-1868)

MObius, P . Rosegger (1903) .