Died 15 March 1865 | ||
Friedrich Karl Köpke (19 March 1785, Medow, a town near Anklam – 15 March 1865, Berlin) was a German educator who specialized in Germanic studies.
He studied philology at the University of Halle, receiving his doctorate at Erfurt in 1808. From 1810 onward, he worked as a senior instructor at the Collegium Fridericianum in Königsberg. From 1817 to 1857 he was a professor at the Joachimsthal Gymnasium in Berlin under the directorships of Bernhard Moritz Snethlage and August Meineke.
Published works
He was the editor of a collection of 13th century legends titled "Das Passional : eine Legenden-Sammlung des dreizehnten Jahrhunderts" (1852). Other noted works by Köpke include:
References
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