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Anton Sommer

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Anton Sommer (11 December 1816 - 1 June 1888) was a dialect poet from Thuringia (now in central Germany). He was born and died in Rudolstadt.

Life

Between 1835 and 1838 Sommer studied theology in Jena, after which he turned to teaching. In 1850 he returned to his hometown and established a school of his own. He was authorized to preach in the small church in Schaala, now a quarter within Rudolstadt. In 1861 he was appointed garrison preacher in Rudolstadt, and it was here, by now half blind and from 1881 recognized as an "honoured citizen", that he died.

Sommer's compilation "Bilder und Klänge aus Rudolstadt in Volksmundart" ("Images and sounds from Rudolstadt in local dialect"), repeatedly updated during his lifetime, was relatively well known for several decades after his death

The house in which Anton Sommers lived, in Rudolstadt
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