The New International Encyclopædia/Gerok, Karl

GEROK, gā′rṓk, Karl (1815-90). A German preacher and religious poet. He was born at Vaihingen, Württemberg, January 30, 1815, studied at Tübingen, became chief Court preacher in Stuttgart, 1868, and died there January 14, 1890. His sermons, and particularly his religious poetry, were much admired. The chief collection of the latter was entitled Palmblätter (1857), English translation by Brown (London, 1869).