August Schauer (17 January 1872 – 1 July 1941)Ferenc, Mitja, & Gojko Zupan. 2012. Izgubljene kočevske vasi, vol. 2 (K–P). Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani, p. 229. was a Gottschee Roman Catholic priest and publisher.
Education After graduating from the lower secondary school in Kočevje, Schauer attended the upper secondary school in Novo Mesto. He then studied theology in Ljubljana and was ordained a priest on 22 July 1897.Slovenec 3 July 1941, p. 4 "Pfarrer Schauer und der fremde Gast." Gottscheer Zeitung 100(87)(4) (April): p. 8.
Priesthood Schauer celebrated his first mass in Kočevske Poljane on 8 August 1897.Kmetijske in rokodelske novice 55(28) 10 July 1897, p. 272 He was initially appointed as a curate in Koprivnik,"Gottscheer Persönlichkeiten. Wir stellen vor: Geistl. Rat Pfarrer August Schauer." Gottscheer Zeitung 102(89)(1) (January): p. 7. and then transferred to Stari Log in 1899.Kmetijske in rokodelske novice 57(32) 12 August 1899, p. 282 Schauer then became the parish priest in Topla Reber in 1901.Kmetijske in rokodelske novice 59(48) 30 November 1901, p. 476 He became the parish priest of Koprivnik in 1906. Schauer served as the parish priest of Koprivnik for over 30 years. He was appointed a spiritual adviser in 1930. A celebration was held in Koprivnik on 10 January 1936 to mark his 30 years of service as parish priest. A celebration marking 40 years of his priesthood was held on 22 July 1937.
Professional work Schauer edited the Gottscheer Kalender (Gottschee Almanac) (sl) from 1925 to 1941, following the editorships of Wilhelm Tschinkel (1921–1923) and Robert Braune (1924). In addition to promoting Catholicism, the almanac also cultivated local history studies and the Gottscheerisch dialect. Schauer was among the organizers of the celebration in August 1930 to commemorate 600 years of Gottschee German settlement, and he delivered a sermon at the event.Deutsche Zeitung 55(63) 7 August 1930, p. 1 Like most of his fellow Gottschee German clergy,Ferenc, Tone. 1969. Nacistična raznarodovalna politika v Sloveniji v letih 1941–1945. Ljubljana: Obzorja, p. 590. Schauer was opposed to the mass resettlement of the Gottschee Germans during the Second World War.Petschauer, Erich. 1984. "Das Jahrhundertbuch": Gottschee and its people through the centuries. New York: Gottscheer Relief Association, p. 126.
Death
Schauer died at the Leonišče Hospital in Ljubljana on 1 July 1941 and was buried in his native village of Kočevske Poljane.Eppich, Josef. 1941. "Geistlicher Rat Pfarrer August Schauer." Gottscheer Zeitung (3 July).
References
External links Gottscheer Kalender vols. 6, 8–19 at the University of Regensburg library