Christoph Köler, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Christoph Köler

Poet and writer

Date of Birth: 01-Dec-1602

Place of Birth: Bolesławiec, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 19-Apr-1658

Profession: writer, poet

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Christoph Köler or (in Latin), Christophorus Colerus (1602–1658) was a German poet and writer.
A student of Martin Opitz (1597–1637) and follower of his Baroque poetical reforms, Köler later revised his papers and published a biography of his teacher.
His most noted student was the German priest, and mystical poet Angelus Silesius (1624–1677).Köler was born in 1602 in Silesian Boleslawiec in the Duchy of Jawor, at got his first schooling at the Elisabet-Gymnasium in Breslau.
Subsequently, he studied from 1624 to 1629 jurisprudence at the University of Strasbourg, where he joined the historian and philologist Matthias Egger of Bern.
Köler returned to Boleslawiec in 1629.
He was hired at the Breslauer Elisabeth-Gymnasium in 1634, and was appointed deputy head and Professor in 1637.