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Oswald Reissert
1861–1931
A German philologist, school director, and travel writer, remembered for a richly observed portrait of the Weserbergland and Teutoburg Forest. His work blends scholarship with a clear affection for landscape, local life, and regional history.
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Das Weserbergland und der Teutoburger Wald
by Oswald Reissert
About the author
Born in 1861, he was a German philologist and author who earned his doctorate at the University of Marburg in 1883. Reference sources also describe him as later becoming director of the Gymnasium and Realgymnasium zum Heiligen Geist in Breslau.
He is best known today for Das Weserbergland und der Teutoburger Wald, a geographical and cultural study first published in 1909 and issued again in a second edition in 1925. The book is noted for its close attention to landscape, geology, towns, and everyday life in the region.
Library and authority records list additional works, including scholarly writing and lighter satirical verse, which suggests a writer equally at home in academic study and more playful forms. He died in 1931.