Heinrich Pröhle

Christoph Heinrich Ferdinand Pröhle ( born June 4, 1822 in Satuelle, † May 28 1895 in Steglitz ) was a German teacher and writer.

Life

Heinrich Pröhle is the son of evangelical pastor Heinrich Andreas Pröhle, who was also working part-time as a writer. From Easter 1835 visited Heinrich Pröhle of Hornhausen from where his father had been transferred, the Cathedral School in Halberstadt and then high school in Magdeburg. From 1843 he attended the University of Halle (Saale ) and from 1845, the University of Berlin to study philosophy and history. After completing his studies in 1846 he went on a training trip to Austria and was briefly a journalist.

1851 was Pröhle in Zellerfeld in the Harz Mountains and later in Lerbach down to write down here at the request of his teacher, Jacob Grimm, the tales and legends of the people of that mountain. From 1854 to 1857 he sat in Wernigerode continued his collecting activities. During this time he received his doctorate in 1855 in Berlin with a thesis on the legends of the Brocken. From 1858 he worked for a year as a teacher in Mülheim an der Ruhr, before he went to the Luistenstädtische secondary school in Berlin, where he worked until 1890 as a teacher.

In his retirement, Henry Pröhle title of professor was conferred.

Works

• Berlin and Vienna. Berlin 1850
• The pastor of Grünrode. Leipzig 1852
• Children's and folk tales. Leipzig 1853 (mostly collected on the upper resins)
• Tell resin. Volume 1, Leipzig, 1853, Volume 2 1856
• Resin picture. Customs and traditions from the Harz Mountains. Leipzig 1855
• Unterharzische word. Aschersleben 1856
• Rhineland most beautiful legends and stories. 1886
• Tell resin. Bad Harzburg 1957