Gottschalk Eduard Guhrauer

Who was Gottschalk Eduard Guhrauer?

Gottschalk Eduard Guhrauer was a German philologist and biographer. He is known principally for his 1842 biography of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and his completion of Theodor Wilhelm Danzel's life of Lessing.

He was born at Bojanowo and died at Breslau.

He studied philology and philosophy at Breslau and Berlin, later spending time in Paris, where he researched Leibniz' works. After his return to Germany, he worked as a librarian at the University of Breslau. In 1843, he became a professor at Breslau. He wrote also on Jean Bodin, Joachim Jungius and Kurmainz.