Christoph Ferdinand Heinrich Pröhle (June 4, 1822 – May 28, 1895) was a German literary historian, teacher (Oberlehrer), writer and folk tale and fairy tale collector (a successor to the Brothers Grimm).
The given name "Heinrich" occurs in several cases among the relatives of the writer in question.
As far as it is known, all the Pröhle are relatives, whether the family name is written with short Germanic umlaut or long Hungarian umlaut.
[a] He became well known as a collector and publisher of German folk-tales and folk-legends.
His intellectual heritage was recognised in several ways: