Gottschalk Eduard Guhrauer
Gottschalk Eduard Guhrauer (15 May 1809 – 5 January 1854) was a German
philologist and biographer. He is known principally for his 1842 biography of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and his completion (1853) of Theodor Wilhelm Danzel's biography of Lessing
, G. E. Lessing, sein Leben und seine Werke (1850–53, 2 volumes).
He was born in
, Poland).He studied philology and philosophy in Breslau and Berlin. Under the influence of the English missionary
Vaticinium Lehninense
.
works
- Mémoire sur le Projet de Leibnitz Relatif à l'Expedition d'Egypte Proposé à Louis XIV en 1672, Paris, 1839.
- Kur-Mainz in der Epoche von 1672, Hamburg, 1839 - Kurmainz in the era of 1672.
- Lessings Erziehung des Menschengeschlechts, Kritisch und Philosophisch Erörtert ib. 1841 - Lessing's Education of Mankind, critically and philosophically explained.
- Das Heptaplomeres des Jean Bodin, ib. 1841 - The heptaplomeres of Jean Bodin.
- G. W. v. Leibniz, eine Biographie, Breslau, 1842, supplement 1846. - Leibniz, a biography.
- Joachim Jungius und Sein Zeitalter, Stuttgart, 1850. - Jungius and his era.
- Die Weissagung von Lehnin. Eine Monographie, Breslau, 1850.
In addition, he edited Leibniz's Deutsche Schriften (2 volumes: 1838–40), and Goethe's Briefwechsel mit Knebel (
Goethe's correspondence with Karl Ludwig von Knebel
, 1851).
References
- ADB: Guhrauer, Edward Gottschalk Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie.
- ^ Obituary in the Breslauer Zeitung No. 12, January 7, 1854, midday edition, p. 60
- Jewish Encyclopedia
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