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b. 1849
Known for vivid writing on Italy, this German journalist and author turned travel, history, and classical scholarship into books that still surface in library collections today. His work ranges from a doctoral study of Aelian to richly detailed books on Capri and Rome.
by Reinhold Schoener
Born on November 6, 1849, Reinhold Schoener was a German journalist, writer, translator, and teacher. Library and authority records identify him as a historical author born in 1849, and reference works also give his death year as 1936.
His published work shows an unusually wide range. An early scholarly milestone was De Claudio Aeliano (1873), described as a Ph.D. thesis from Breslau. Later, he became known for books with a strong sense of place, including Capri. Natur, Volksthum, Geschichte und alterhümer der Insel (1892) and Rome, along with Roma Sacra, a work centered on the religious and cultural life of Rome.
Schoener's writing often seems to grow out of reporting as much as scholarship. The record for Capri notes that it developed from pieces he had published in the Allgemeine Zeitung, which helps explain the lively, observant feel associated with his travel and cultural writing.