Karl Rudolf Wilhelm Klose

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Karl (also: C arl) Rudolf Wilhelm Klose (born October 6, 1804 in Hamburg ; † July 7, 1873 ibid) was a German Lutheran theologian and librarian .

Life

Klose attended the Johanneum under Johann Gottfried Gurlitt and studied Protestant theology in Halle and Breslau from 1826 . He completed his habilitation at the University of Göttingen in January 1830 and then lectured in exegesis there . As a private lecturer he was appointed to the University of Kiel in 1832 and stayed there for 10 years. He read on history and exegesis while also serving as a university librarian for seven years .

Gravestone plaque Althamburg Memorial Cemetery Ohlsdorf

From 1842 Klose lived again in his hometown. From 1846 he was a research assistant there , at the Johanneum from 1851 assistant teacher and at the city ​​library from 1853 secretary. From 1856 to 1862 he was also a collaborator at the school .

Klose contributed to theological journals and the first edition of Johann Jakob Herzog's Real Encyclopedia for Protestant Theology and Church . He also wrote ten articles for the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie .

In Hamburg, in the area of ​​the Ohlsdorf Althamburg Memorial Cemetery, there is a collective grave (“Wissenschaftliche Anstalten”) in honor of Karl Rudolf Wilhelm Klose and others.

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Karl Rudolf Wilhelm Klose  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. loud address book entry from 1873: C . RW

Remarks

  1. Address 1873: “Klose, CRW, Dr. Phil., St. Georg, Neuestr. 18 “in: Hamburg address book at the Hamburg State Library