Gerok, Karl

(Fried rich), D.D. (hon., Tubingen, 1877), Luther an; b. at Vaihingen, Wiirtemberg,. Jan. 30, 1815; studied in the Stuttgart gymnasium, under Gustav Schwab; and from 1832 to 1836 in the theological seminary at Tubingen, where he was repetent from 1840 to 1843. In 1844 he became diakonus at Bbblingen; in 1849, diakonus at Stuttgart; in 1852, decern (superintendent) there; in 1868, chief court preacher, chief councillor of the consistory, and prelate. He is a renowned preacher, and Germany's foremost religious poet. He belongs to the " Positive Union " party in the Church. He has published the following prose volumes: Gebet des Herrn in Gebeten, Stuttgart, 1854, 5th ed. 1883; Evangelienpredigten, 1855, 7th ed. 1880; Epistelpredigten, 1857, 6th ed. 1880; Pilgerbrot, 1866,4th ed. 1882; Die Apostelgeschichte in Bibelstunden, 1868, 2 vols., 2d ed. 1882; Aus ernster Zeit, 1873; Jugenderinnerungen (his autobiography), 1876 (3 editions in six months); Hirtenslimmen, 1879, 2d ed. 1882. He furnished the homiletical portion of Lechler's volume on Acts for Lange's Commentary (Elberfeld, 1860, 4th ed. 1881, American ed. New York). He also edited Paul Gerhardt's Geistliche Liedery Leipzig, 3d ed. 1883; Matthias Claudius', Gotha, 1878; DieWittemberger Nach tig all, Stuttgart, 1883; and Luther's Geistliche Lieder, Stuttgart, 18S3. But Karl Gerok's poems have given him his widest fame: Palmbldtter, Stuttgart, 1857, 51st ed. 1883 (in several editions, plain and illustrated; English trans, by J. E. A. Broom, London, 2d ed. 1885), 2d series 1882,9th ed. 1885; Pfingstrosen, 18(56, 9th ed. 1886; Blumen und Sterne, iS68, 10th ed. 1882, 2d series, Der letzte Strau , 1884, 3d ed. 1886; Deutsche Ostern, 1871, 6th ed. 1883.