Karl Goedeke

 ( 1814 Births ) 

Karl Friedrich Ludwig Goedeke (15 April 1814 – 28 October 1887) was a German historian of literature, an author, and a professor.

He was born at Celle and was educated at Göttingen (1833-1838), where he attended lectures by Jacob Grimm, with whom he maintained a lifelong friendship. From 1841 to 1855, he lived and worked in Hannover, Goedeke , Karl Ludwig Friedrich @ NDB/ADB Deutsche Biographie and from 1873 until his death, was a professor at the University of Göttingen.

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 also wrote biographies of Lessing, Goethe, and Schiller.

• Schreck, Karl Goedeke (1894)