Christoph Köler

Portrait of Christoph Koeler

Christoph Köler , also in Latin Colerus , (born December 1, 1602 in Bunzlau , Principality of Schweidnitz-Jauer , † April 19, 1658 in Breslau ) was a German poet, writer, high school teacher and librarian. Köler was Martin Opitz's first biographer .

Live and act

Köler was born in Bunzlau in Silesia in 1602 and trained at the University of Frankfurt / Oder and at the Elisabeth Gymnasium in Breslau . He then studied law from 1624 to 1629 at the University of Strasbourg, where he joined the historian and philologist Matthias Bernegger. In 1629 Köler returned to Bunzlau. In 1634 he was employed at the Elisabeth Gymnasium in Breslau, and in 1637 he was appointed deputy principal and professor. One of his students was Angelus Silesius . In 1639 Köler was elected part-time librarian of the Maria Magdalenen Library in Breslau.

Works (selection)

Laudation Honori & Memoriae V. CL. Martini Opitii , 1665
Oratio Auspicalis Cum Habita solemni Panegyri Bibliotheca Mario-Magdalenaea , 1699
Dissertationes De Antiqua Et Nova Germanorum Poesi
Hymni pacis: Ad senatum populumque Bregensem
For effort, diligence and sweat you get the Honor Prize , 1651
Faber Fortunae Conjugalis
Comparison of the praiseworthy merchants with the sacred marriage , 1645
Honorable invitation to a illustrated Teutsch-Poetic Mayen-Lust , 1642
In Fatales Turris & Templi Elisabetani Vratislav [iensis] Casus , 1650

literature

Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau (1616-1679): life and work
Peter Ukena: Köler (Colerus), Christoph. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 316 ( digitized version ).
Colerus (Christoph). In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 6, Leipzig 1733, column 662.

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Footnotes

^ Wilhelm Kühlmann : Scheffler, Johannes (Johannes Angelus Silesius) (1624-1677) . In: Theologische Realenzyklopädie (TRE), Vol. 30, pp. 83-87, here p. 84.

personal data
SURNAME	Köler, Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Colerus, Christopher
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German baroque poet
DATE OF BIRTH	December 1, 1602
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bunzlau , Duchy of Schweidnitz-Jauer
DATE OF DEATH	April 19, 1658
Place of death	Wroclaw

[1] Wilhelm Kühlmann : Scheffler, Johannes (Johannes Angelus Silesius) (1624-1677) . In: Theologische Realenzyklopädie (TRE), Vol. 30, pp. 83-87, here p. 84.