Born on 7 November 1851, at house no. 174 in Johannesberg, Gablonz, Bohemia, Austria (today Czech Republic), son of Josef Rößler and Magdalena Glückselig.
At age 26, single, Catholic and working as a labourer, he emigrated to Santa Catarina aboard the steamship Rio, of the Transatlantic Navigation Company. The ship departed from Hamburg on 20.03.1877, calling at Lisbon on 27.03.1877, at Rio de Janeiro on 18.04.1877, and arriving at São Francisco do Sul on 22/04/1877 at 10 in the morning.
He initially settled at 482 Estrada Bismarck, in the São Bento Colony, where he had his first two children. Around 1880 he moved to Curitiba, in the Santa Cândida Colony. He died of consumption on 9 July 1888, aged only 36, in Curitiba, PR, leaving a wife and three minor children: Aurélia (10), Anna (6) and José (5).