Gottschalk Eduard Guhrauer
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Gottschalk Eduard Guhrauer (15 May 1809 – 5 January 1854) was a German
philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources. It is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics with strong ties to etymology. Philology is also defined as the study of ...
and biographer. He is known principally for his 1842 biography of
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (or Leibnitz; – 14 November 1716) was a German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist and diplomat who is credited, alongside Sir Isaac Newton, with the creation of calculus in addition to ...
and his completion (1853) of Theodor Wilhelm Danzel's biography of
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, ''G. E. Lessing, sein Leben und seine Werke'' (1850–53, 2 volumes). He was born in Bojanowo (then in Grand Duchy of Warsaw, now in
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) and died in Breslau (now
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, Poland). He studied philology and philosophy in Breslau and Berlin. Under the influence of the English missionary William Ayerst, Guhrauer converted from Judaism to Christianity in 1835. He traveled to
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in 1836 and
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in 1838 to research Leibniz's biography and works. After his return to Germany, he worked as a librarian at the
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, where he became a professor in 1843.Biography & bibliography
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Guhrauer also wrote on
Jean Bodin Jean Bodin (; ; – 1596) was a French jurist and political philosopher, member of the Parlement of Paris and professor of law in Toulouse. Bodin lived during the aftermath of the Protestant Reformation and wrote against the background of reli ...
,
Joachim Jungius Joachim Jungius (born Joachim Junge; 22 October 1587 – 23 September 1657) was a German mathematician, logician and philosopher of science. Life Jungius was a native of Lübeck. He studied metaphysics at the Universities of University of Ro ...
, the Kurmainz (
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), and the Latin poem 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'',
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, 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'' (
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's correspondence with Karl Ludwig von Knebel, 1851).


References


ADB: Guhrauer, Edward Gottschalk
Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie. 1809 births 1854 deaths People from Rawicz County German philologists German biographers Scholars from the Kingdom of Prussia German male biographers People from the Grand Duchy of Posen Academic staff of the University of Breslau {{Germany-academic-bio-stub