Leo Cholevius

Karl Leo Cholevius (born March 11, 1814 in Barten , East Prussia Province ; † December 13, 1878 in Königsberg i. Pr. ) Was a German teacher and literary historian in Königsberg.

Life

As the son of the businessman Karl Ludwig Cholevius and his wife Amalie geb. Cholevius attended high school in Rastenburg . Since the summer semester of 1833 he studied philology and history at the Albertus University in Königsberg , especially with Friedrich Wilhelm Schubert . In the same semester he became a member of the Corps Masovia . After the exam pro facultate docendi (1837) and the probationary year in Rastenburg , he came to the Kneiphöfische Gymnasium in Königsberg in 1839 as an assistant teacher . In the same year he became a full teacher and in 1857 a high school professor . Paul Schlenther and Ernst Wichert are among his students .

The main focus of his work was the German-language literature of the 18th and 19th centuries, Johann Gottfried Herder , German poetry , the German novel of the 17th century and the literature of East Prussia . Cholevius was a member of the Royal German Society (Königsberg) . For John Koch he was a "author of once highly valued works on German literature and German teaching [...] a stout, jovial old man and a strong sniff" .

Dispositions and materials for German essays , 2 volumes. Leipzig 1860–1862, 10th edition 1886–1887
Practical instructions for writing German essays . Leipzig 1868, 6th edition 1893
History of German poetry according to its ancient elements , 2 volumes. Leipzig 1854-1856
About Hercules and Valiska's miracle story by AH Bucholtz . Koenigsberg 1864
The most important German novels of the 17th century . Leipzig 1866 Google Books (a pioneering work in the field of baroque research )
Aesthetic and historical introduction along with a continuous explanation of Goethe's Hermann and Dorothea . Leipzig 1863, 3rd edition 1897 Google Books

Edward Schröder: Cholevius, Karl Leo . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 47, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1903, pp. 478-480.
Cholevius, Karl Leo . In: Brockhaus Konversations-Lexikon 1894–1896, Volume 4, p. 260.
Christoph König (Ed.), With the collaboration of Birgit Wägenbaur u. a .: Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950 . Volume 1: A-G. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-015485-4 , p. 331 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

personal data
SURNAME	Cholevius, Leo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Cholevius, Karl Leo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German teacher and literary historian
DATE OF BIRTH	March 11, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH	Barten , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH	December 13, 1878
Place of death	Koenigsberg i. Pr.