{{Short description|Roman Catholic priest}} {{Infobox Christian leader | type = | honorific_prefix = | name = August Schauer | honorific_suffix = | title = | image = Kocevske Poljane cerkev August Schauer.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Memorial plaque to August Schauer, Kočevske Poljane church wall | church = | archdiocese = | province = | metropolis = | diocese = | see = | elected = | appointed = | term_start = | quashed = | term_end = | predecessor = | opposed = | successor = | other_post = <!---------- Orders ----------> | ordination = 1897 | ordinated_by = | consecration = | consecrated_by = | cardinal = | rank = <!---------- Personal details ----------> | birth_name = August Schauer | birth_date = {{birth date|1872|1|17|df=y}} | birth_place = Pöllandl, Austria-Hungary | death_date = {{death date and age|1941|7|1|1872|1|17|df=y}} | death_place = Lubiana, Kingdom of Italy | buried = Kočevske Poljane, Slovenia | denomination = Roman Catholic | residence = | parents = | spouse = | children = | occupation = | profession = | previous_post = | alma_mater = | motto = | signature = | signature_alt = | coat_of_arms = | coat_of_arms_alt = <!---------- Sainthood ----------> | feast_day = | venerated = | saint_title = | beatified_date = | beatified_place = | beatified_by = | canonized_date = | canonized_place = | canonized_by = | attributes = | patronage = | shrine = | suppressed_date = <!---------- Other ----------> | other = }}
'''August Schauer''' (17 January 1872 – 1 July 1941)<ref name="Ferenc Zupan">Ferenc, Mitja, & Gojko Zupan. 2012. ''Izgubljene kočevske vasi'', vol. 2 (K–P). Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani, p. 229.</ref> was a Gottschee Roman Catholic priest and publisher.
==Education== After graduating from the lower secondary school in Kočevje, Schauer attended the upper secondary school in Novo Mesto. He then studied theology in Ljubljana and was ordained a priest on 22 July 1897.<ref name="Slovenec">[http://www.dlib.si/stream/URN:NBN:SI:DOC-X4DWH4E8/36e4f879-e1ea-4b92-859c-f5cac3882ddd/PDF ''Slovenec'' 3 July 1941, p. 4] {{in lang|sl}}</ref><ref name="GZ2003">[http://wwwu.uni-klu.ac.at/hleustik/gottschee/archiv/zeitungen/gz/pdf_2003/april_2003.pdf "Pfarrer Schauer und der fremde Gast." ''Gottscheer Zeitung'' 100(87)(4) (April): p. 8.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304032927/http://wwwu.uni-klu.ac.at/hleustik/gottschee/archiv/zeitungen/gz/pdf_2003/april_2003.pdf |date=2016-03-04 }} {{in lang|de}}</ref>
==Priesthood== Schauer celebrated his first mass in Kočevske Poljane on 8 August 1897.<ref name="GZ2003"/><ref>[http://www.dlib.si/stream/URN:NBN:SI:DOC-LXTDOV2J/3c114c9f-cdd3-4536-b7c4-6dcb899cc814/PDF ''Kmetijske in rokodelske novice'' 55(28) 10 July 1897, p. 272] {{in lang|sl}}</ref> He was initially appointed as a curate in Koprivnik,<ref name="GZ2005">[http://wwwu.uni-klu.ac.at/hleustik/gottschee/archiv/zeitungen/gz/pdf_2005/jaenner_2005.pdf "Gottscheer Persönlichkeiten. Wir stellen vor: Geistl. Rat Pfarrer August Schauer." ''Gottscheer Zeitung'' 102(89)(1) (January): p. 7.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070325095955/http://wwwu.uni-klu.ac.at/hleustik/gottschee/archiv/zeitungen/gz/pdf_2005/jaenner_2005.pdf |date=2007-03-25 }} {{in lang|de}}</ref> and then transferred to Stari Log in 1899.<ref name="Slovenec"/><ref>[http://www.dlib.si/stream/URN:NBN:SI:DOC-2UAN7HDL/72acede8-c322-4d66-8627-f45ff8345f72/PDF ''Kmetijske in rokodelske novice'' 57(32) 12 August 1899, p. 282] {{in lang|sl}}</ref> Schauer then became the parish priest in Topla Reber in 1901.<ref>[http://www.dlib.si/stream/URN:NBN:SI:DOC-8SWQ4JHO/c5d80df7-e284-4776-ac8a-0c8a151b4693/PDF ''Kmetijske in rokodelske novice'' 59(48) 30 November 1901, p. 476] {{in lang|sl}}</ref> He became the parish priest of Koprivnik in 1906.<ref name="GZ2005"/> Schauer served as the parish priest of Koprivnik for over 30 years.<ref name="Ferenc Zupan"/> He was appointed a spiritual advisor in 1930.<ref name="Slovenec"/> A celebration was held in Koprivnik on 10 January 1936 to mark his 30 years of service as parish priest.<ref name="GZ2003"/> A celebration marking 40 years of his priesthood was held on 22 July 1937.<ref name="GZ2005"/>
==Professional work== Schauer edited the ''Gottscheer Kalender'' (Gottschee Almanac) (sl) from 1925 to 1941,<ref name="Ferenc Zupan"/> following the editorships of Wilhelm Tschinkel (1921–1923) and Robert Braune (1924).<ref name="GZ2005"/> In addition to promoting Catholicism, the almanac also cultivated local history studies and the Gottscheerisch dialect.<ref name="GZ2005"/> Schauer was among the organizers of the celebration in August 1930 to commemorate 600 years of Gottschee German settlement,<ref name="Ferenc Zupan"/> and he delivered a sermon at the event.<ref>[http://www.dlib.si/stream/URN:NBN:SI:DOC-BSX6YUWX/defaf04e-caf4-4774-8fe5-0cf82fc29d65/PDF ''Deutsche Zeitung'' 55(63) 7 August 1930, p. 1] {{in lang|de}}</ref> Like most of his fellow Gottschee German clergy,<ref>Ferenc, Tone. 1969. ''Nacistična raznarodovalna politika v Sloveniji v letih 1941–1945''. Ljubljana: Obzorja, p. 590.</ref> Schauer was opposed to the mass resettlement of the Gottschee Germans during the Second World War.<ref>Petschauer, Erich. 1984. ''"Das Jahrhundertbuch": Gottschee and its people through the centuries''. New York: Gottscheer Relief Association, p. 126.</ref>
==Death== thumb|150px|left|Plaque to August Schauer, formerly on the Kočevske Poljane church wall Schauer died at the Leonišče Hospital in Ljubljana on 1 July 1941 and was buried in his native village of Kočevske Poljane.<ref name="Ferenc Zupan"/><ref name="GZ2003"/><ref>Eppich, Josef. 1941. "Geistlicher Rat Pfarrer August Schauer." ''Gottscheer Zeitung'' (3 July).</ref> {{clear}}
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==External links== *[http://bvbm1.bib-bvb.de/R/XLMJCTGUXQDM2MJUA3LSHNJSHQAVH57QQ1AC4F9X9R4UKK19RB-00937?func=collections-result&collection_id=1834&pds_handle=GUEST ''Gottscheer Kalender'' vols. 6, 8–19 at the University of Regensburg library] *{{Find a Grave|99971564}}
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