Christoph Köler or (in Latin), Christophorus Colerus (1 December 1602 in Bunzlau, Fürstentum Schweidnitz-Jauer - 19 April 1658 in Breslau) was a

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and writer. A student of

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(1597–1637) and follower of his

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poetical reforms, Köler later revised his papers and published a biography of his teacher. His most noted student was the German priest, and mystical poet

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(1624–1677). Köler was born in 1602 in

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in the

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, at got his first schooling at the in Breslau. Subsequently, he studied from 1624 to 1629

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at the

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, where he joined the historian and philologist

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of Bern. Köler returned to Bolesławiec in 1629. He was hired at the Breslauer Elisabeth-Gymnasium in 1634, and was appointed deputy head and Professor in 1637.

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