Education
Prowe studied in Leipzig and Berlin and then returned home to become a teacher at the gymnasium of Thorn.
Prowe studied in Leipzig and Berlin and then returned home to become a teacher at the gymnasium of Thorn.
Prowe compiled a comprehensive German language biography of Copernicus, titled Nicolaus Coppernicus. In 1839, a local "monument committee" had been founded with the intention to erect a monument, which was created by Friedrich Tieck of Berlin, and erected posthumously in 1853. The activities then continued in a society for science and arts, called Coppernicus-Verein für Wissenschaft und Kunst zu Thorn, headed by Prowe for many years.