Karl Goedeke

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Karl Goedeke (1814-87) was a German historian of literature, an author, and a professor. He was born at Celle and was educated at Göttingen, where he was professor from 1873 until his death. After writing several novels and the drama König Kodrus, eine Missgeburt der Zeit, under the pseudonym Karl Stahl, he devoted himself to critical and biographical literature. His publications include:

• Deutschlands Dichter von 1813 bis 1843 (1844)
• Elf Bücher deutscher Dichtung von Sebastian Brant bis auf die Gegenwart (1849)
• Deutsche Dichtung im Mittelalter (second edition, 1871)
• Grundriss zur Geschichte der deutschen Dichtung (third edition, under the editorship of Edmund Goetze, 1910 et seq.), his principal work. He wrote biographies of Lessing, Goethe, and Schiller.

[edit] Publications

• Schreck, Karl Goedeke (1894)

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