Gottschalk Eduard Guhrauer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gottschalk Eduard Guhrauer

German philologist and writer

Date of Birth: 15-May-1809

Place of Birth: Bojanowo, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 05-Jan-1854

Profession: biographer, university teacher, literary historian, linguist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

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 at Bojanowo (then in Grand Duchy of Warsaw, now in Poland) and died at Breslau (now Wroclaw, Poland). He studied philology and philosophy at Breslau and Berlin, later spending time in Paris, where he researched Leibniz' works.
After his return to Germany, he worked as a librarian at the University of Breslau.
In 1843, he became a professor at Breslau.
He wrote also on Jean Bodin, Joachim Jungius and Kurmainz (Electorate of Mainz).