Life
Scherer was born in Schönborn, Austrian Empire (present-day Göllersdorf, Lower Austria, Austria). He was educated at the academic gymnasium at Vienna and afterwards at the University of Vienna, where he was the favorite pupil of the distinguished Germanist, Karl Müllenhoff (1818–1884). Having taken the degree of doctor philosophiae, he became Privatdozent for German language and literature in 1864.
In 1868 he was appointed ordinary professor, and in 1872 received a call in a like capacity to the University of Strasbourg, and in 1877 to the University of Berlin, where in 1884 he was made member of the Academy of Sciences.
He died in Berlin, German Empire at the age of 45.
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