21 Facts About Peter Rosegger

Peter Rosegger was an Austrian writer and poet from Krieglach in the province of Styria.

Peter Rosegger was a son of a mountain farmer and grew up in the woodlands and mountains of Alpl.

Peter Rosegger was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times.

Peter Rosegger was nearly awarded the Nobel Prize in 1913 and is something like a national treasure to this day.

Peter Rosegger was born as the first of seven children of a peasant couple in the village of Alpl, in the mountains above Krieglach, Styria.

The way there takes two hours and as a result, Peter Rosegger had very limited education, largely provided by a wandering teacher who taught him and other children from the region for a year and a half.

Peter Rosegger spent what he could afford on books and soon began to write himself.

Peter Rosegger realized Rosegger's talent as an author and enabled him to attend the Akademie fur Handel und Industrie in Graz.

Von Reininghaus was a wealthy and influential industrialist, and Peter Rosegger had a personal friendship with him for the rest of his life.

Peter Rosegger left the academy in 1869 at the age of twenty-six.

Peter Rosegger accepted, and his first book, Geschichten aus der Steiermark, was released in 1871.

Peter Rosegger changed to a new publisher twice after Heckenast's death, eventually ending up with Ludwig Staackmann, who made him a most generous offer.

Peter Rosegger had always been very faithful towards his publishers, and the relationship between them was one of friendship and familiarity.

Peter Rosegger started to publish Heimgarten in 1876, a monthly journal with articles and stories for the people of the country, whose main representative and interpreter he was.

In 1879, Peter Rosegger married again: Anna Knaur, with whom he had three more children and a very harmonious house life.

Peter Rosegger cared for him during his many times of sickness.

Peter Rosegger developed many brilliant and extraordinary ideas from the context of his time, and kept contact with unconventional personalities.

Peter Rosegger called for donations publicly at various occasions or used his influence in academic circles, thus contributing to the founding of one school, the building of two churches and other benevolent actions.

Peter Rosegger became citizen of honour in Graz and Vienna, and Franz Josef's successor Karl presented the ex-farmer-boy-now-national-poet with the Franz-Joseph-medal, a high-ranking accolade for an author.

Peter Rosegger, who had been ill frequently and seriously, travelled back to his home in Krieglach in May 1918 in order to die where "the beautiful legend of the forest-farmer boy" had once begun, in the woodlands of the Styrian Alps.

The tourism industry in the region still profits from Peter Rosegger's enduring popularity among readers.