Gottschalk Eduard Guhrauer (1809–1854) was a German philologist and biographer. He is known principally for his 1842 biography of G. W. Leibniz and his completion (1853) of T. W. Danzel's life of Lessing

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was a German writer, philosopher, dramatist, publicist, and art critic, and one of the most outstanding representatives of the Enlightenment era. His plays and theoretical writings substantially influenced the development of German literature...

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He was born at Bojanowo

Bojanowo

Bojanowo is a town in Rawicz County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland. During the Partitions of Poland, the town was in the Kreis Rawitsch, Provinz Posen.-External links:* * * *...

 (then in Grand Duchy of Warsaw, now in Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

) and died at Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland). He became a professor at the University of Breslau in 1843. He wrote also on Jean Bodin

Jean Bodin

Jean Bodin was a French jurist and political philosopher, member of the Parlement of Paris and professor of law in Toulouse. He is best known for his theory of sovereignty; he was also an influential writer on demonology....

, Joachim Jungius

Joachim Jungius

Joachim Jungius was a German mathematician, logician and philosopher of sciences.-Life:He was a native of Lübeck...

 and Kurmainz.