Balduin Groller

Adalbert Goldscheider, better known as Balduin Groller, was born on September 5th, 1848. He studied philosophy and law at the University of Vienna where he began his writing career by submitting pieces to various newspapers. As one of the most respected writers in Vienna, Groller became the head of the Concordia Press Club as well as a member of the Art Commission of the Austrian Ministry of Culture. On March 16, 1908, Groller was elected the first President of the Central Association for Common Sports Interests, which became the Austrian Olympic Committee. Today, Groller is most famous for his creation of Dagobert Trostler, who has been described as “The Viennese Sherlock Holmes” and “The first important Teutonic sleuth.” Groller was very active in the Viennese literary scene and was friends with many of the most important Austrian authors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including Auguste Groner and Bertha von Suttner.

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