GOEDEKE, KARL (1814-1887), German literary historian, was born at Celle on April 15, 1814. He became professor at Gottingen in 1873, and died there on Oct. 28, 1887. His most important service to German literature was the compilation of the indispensable Grundriss zur Geschichte der deutschen Dichtung (3 vols., 1857-81; new ed., 10 vols., 1884-1913), a bibliography of the subject down to the death of Goethe. Goedeke published many other works, among them a critical edition Of Schiller.