Karl Goedeke
Karl Friedrich Ludwig Goedeke (also: Karl Ludwig Friedrich Goedeke, pseudonym: Ernst Fröhlich and Karl Steel ) ( born April 15, 1814 Celle, † October 27, 1887 in Göttingen ) was a German writer, bibliographer and historian of literature. He was editor of the classic editions of Cotta and was his literary-historical work, especially through his work plan on the history of German literature (1857-1881) famous, which continues to this day, as " Goedeke " one of the most important Sammelbibliografien of Germanic research shows. The Goedeke is one of the well known standard works for booksellers and book lovers as the most comprehensive encyclopedia of German literary history.
Life
Karl Goedeke was the son of a master builder to the world. He attended high school in Celle, in 1828 then the "Royal Pädagogium " in Ilfeld to study from 1833 to 1838 at the University of Göttingen philology and history. His teachers were Georg Friedrich Benecke, the brothers Grimm, Georg Gottfried Gervinus, Friedrich Dahlmann and Karl Otfried Müller. Goedeke left the university without a degree, after he became a journalist in the Augsburger Allgemeine newspaper for the first time in 1837 on the occasion of the protest of the Göttingen Seven, then to other newspapers.
In 1838 he returned to his home town of Celle and wrote here for various North German " leaves political and literary correspondences, gave reviews and novelistic contributions".
1842 moved Goedeke to Hanover on, began a close friendship with Heinrich Wilhelm Hahn the Younger and - when he was temporarily forced also to leave Hanover - published inter alia in the Hahn's Verlagsbuchhandlung several works, including the first biography of Baron Adolph Franz Friedrich Ludwig Knigge.
1843 Goedeke was a member of the Hanoverian Association of Artists.
From 1845, Goedeke was chief editor of the edited by Hermann Harry's Hanover morning newspaper.
Goedeke was district director in Hanover; In 1848 he was elected as one of two representatives in the Second Chamber of the States General of Hanover.
In Hanover Goedeke founded from 1851 to 1855 his biographical and bibliographical method of literary studies.
1859 moved Goedeke again to Göttingen, where he initially worked as a simple private scholar since 1862 and bore the title of Honorary Doctor of Arts at the University of Tübingen. In 1863, he married the 14 years younger than Sophie Lohmeyer ( 1828-1905 ) from Verden, 1873, he was appointed associate professor in Göttingen for literary history.
Works (selection)
Poetry
- Sixteen political poems of a Hanoverian
Stories
- Short stories, 1841
Plays
- King Codrus, a freak of time, 1839
Non-fiction
- Amendment Almanac for 1842, 1841
- Germany's poet 1813-1843, 1844
- Knigge's life and writings, 1844
- Hannover and Germany. Representation of the Conflicts between the government and the cantons in regard to the German cause
- The resolution of the second chamber
- Eleven books of German poetry, by Sebastian Brant up to the present, 1849
- Gems from the latest poets, 1851
- German poetry in the Middle Ages, 1854
- Pamphilus Gengenbach, 1856
- Grundrisz on the history of German poetry, Leipzig: Ehler man, 3 volumes, 1856-1881, ( revised edition 1884-1887 )
- Goethe and Schiller, 1859
- Emanuel Geibel, 1869
- Gottfried August Bürger in Göttingen and Gellinghausen, 1873
- German poets of the 17th century (15 Bde ), 1867-1876
- German poets of the 16th century (18 Bde ), 1867-1883