Christoph Köler
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Christoph Köler or (in Latin), Christophorus Colerus (1602–1658) was a German poet and writer. A student of Martin Opitz (1597–1637) and follower of his Baroque poetical reforms,[1] Köler later revised his papers and published a biography of his teacher.[2] His most noted student was the German priest, and mystical poet Angelus Silesius (1624–1677).[3]
Köler was born in 1602 in Silesian Bolesławiec in the Duchy of Jawor, at got his first schooling at the Elisabet-Gymnasium in Breslau. Subsequently, he studied from 1624 to 1629 jurisprudence at the University of Strasbourg,[4] where he joined the historian and philologist Matthias Egger of Bern. Köler returned to Bolesławiec in 1629. He was hired at the Breslauer Elisabeth-Gymnasium in 1634,[5] and was appointed deputy head and Professor in 1637.[6]
Biography
Max Hippe (1902). Christoph Köler, ein schlesischer Dichter des siebzehnten Jahrhunderts: Sein Leben und eine Auswahl seiner deutschen Gedichte (in German). E. Morgenstern.
References
- ^ Matthias Konzett (11 May 2015). Encyclopedia of German Literature. Taylor & Francis. pp. 1889–. ISBN 978-1-135-94129-1.
Scheffler had early contact with the world of contemporary literature through his teacher in Breslau, Christoph Köler, who was a friend and biographer of Opitz and also a poet in his own right.
- ^ Maria M. Böhm (1997). Angelus Silesius& Cherubinischer Wandersmann. P. Lang. ISBN 978-0-8204-3734-7.
In 1637, when Johannes was merely twelve years old, his father died. ... In 1639 Johannes became a pupil at the Elisabeth-Gymnasium in Breslau, the best gymnasium in Silesia at the time. There he had two influential teachers: Elias Major and Christoph Koler, the latter a friend and first biographer of Martin Opitz, the ...
- ^ "Archive.org". Retrieved 2 August 2012.
- ^ Wilhelm Kühlmann; Walter Ernst Schäfer (1 January 2001). Literatur im Elsaß von Fischart bis Moscherosch: Gesammelte Studien (in German). Walter de Gruyter. pp. 73–. ISBN 978-3-11-095987-1.
Von Christoph Köhler (Colerus) wissen wir, daß er mit Czepko zusammen an den Rhein kam (immatrikuliert am 19. Mai 1624). Er gehörte zu den frühen und eifrigsten Anhängern des Martin Opitz. Sein umfangreiches (Euvre deutscher und ...
- ^ Lothar Noack (1 January 1999). Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau (1616-1679): Leben und Werk (in German). Walter de Gruyter. pp. 52–. ISBN 978-3-11-093359-8.
... zu seinem Tode 1631 ausübte - unter Rektor Pol wurde wohl 1624 auch Christian Hoffmann als Schiller aufgenommen. ... war in jenen Jahren Christoph Köler (Colerus), der seit August 1634 am Elisabethgymnasium unterrichtete und 1637 ...
- ^ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing; Wilfried Barner (2000). Werke und Briefe: Werke 1770-1773 (in German). Deutscher Klassiker Verlag. pp. 730–.
Christoph Colerus] Christoph Köler (1602-1658), aus Bunzlau stammender Dichter, seit 1637 Stellvertreter des Rektors am St. -Elisabeth-Gymnasium; von Scultetus — wie das VI. Gedicht zeigt - als Lehrer und Poet hoch verehrt.
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