Christoph Köler or (in Latin), Christophorus Colerus (1 December 1602 in Bunzlau, Fürstentum Schweidnitz-Jauer - 19 April 1658 in
Breslau) was a
German
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poet
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and writer. A student of
Martin Opitz (1597–1637) and follower of his
Baroque
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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
Angelus Silesius (1624–1677).
Köler was born in 1602 in
Silesia
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n
Bolesławiec in the
Duchy of Jawor, at got his first schooling at the in
Breslau. Subsequently, he studied from 1624 to 1629
jurisprudence
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at the
University of Strasbourg
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The French university traces its history to the ea ...
,
where he joined the historian and philologist
Matthias Egger
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Education and career
Egger completed his cli ...
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.
Biography
References
1602 births
1658 deaths
German poets
German male poets
Baroque writers
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