Richard Groner (3 October 1853 – 15 June 1931, idem) was an Austrian local historian and journalist.

Life

Born in Vienna, the son of a civil servant, Groner entered the service of the later

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in 1871, but found time for journalistic activities at the ''Familienjournal'' (from 1875) and ''

Das interessante Blatt ''Das Interessante Blatt'' was an Austrian magazine which appeared weekly from 1882 to 1939. A supplement of the newspaper appeared under the title Wiener Bilder, their successor newspaper was the ''Wiener Illustrierte''. Bibliography * Helm ...

'' (from 1881). Together with Ludwig Eisenberg he founded the biographical yearbook ''Das geistige Wien'', which was published annually from 1889 onwards. He became famous through his Vienna encyclopaedia ''Wien wie es war'', which appeared in its first edition in 1919 and only dealt with the time up to the

Congress of Vienna The Congress of Vienna (, ) of 1814–1815 was a series of international diplomatic meetings to discuss and agree upon a possible new layout of the European political and constitutional order after the downfall of the French Emperor Napoleon B ...

. The third, extended edition was edited after Groner's death by

Otto Erich Deutsch Otto Erich Deutsch (5 September 1883 – 23 November 1967) was an Austrian musicologist. He is known for compiling the first comprehensive catalogue of Franz Schubert's compositions, first published in 1951 in English, with a revised edition pub ...

(1934); the sixth edition was published in 1966. In 1974,

Felix Czeike Felix Czeike (21 August 1926 – 23 April 2006) was an Austrian historian and popular educator. He was an author and partly also editor of numerous publications on the history of Vienna and was the director of the . His main work is the six-volume ...

and his collaborators published the ''Große Groner Wien Lexikon'', which still had Groner's name in its title, but was based only in its topographical part on Groner's work. Auguste Groner, Groner's wife (''néé'' Kopallik; 1850-1929) was also active as a writer. He was buried in an honorary grave at the

Hietzing Cemetery The Hietzing Cemetery is a cemetery in Hietzing, the 13th district of Vienna. Notable burials (selection) * Alban Berg (1885–1935), composer * Jean-Baptiste Clery (1759–1809), valet to King Louis XVI * Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf (1852 ...

(group 4, number 88).

Publications

* Parts with Ludwig Eisenberg: ''Das geistige Wien. Künstler- und Schriftsteller-Lexikon.'' Daberkow u. a., Vienna 1889–1893, . * ''Wien wie es war. Ein Auskunftsbuch über Alt-Wiener Baulichkeiten, Hausschilder, Plätze und Straßen, sowie über allerlei sonst Wissenswertes aus der Vergangenheit der Stadt''. Waldheim-Eberle, Wien 1919.

Sources

: ''Historisches Lexikon Wien''.''Historisches Lexikon Wien''
on Amazon Volume 2: ''De–Gy.'' Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1993, , . *

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Groner, Richard 1853 births 1931 deaths Writers from Vienna Writers from Austria-Hungary 19th-century Austrian journalists 20th-century Austrian journalists