Almuth Maerker

Almuth Märker (* 1966 in Eisenach ) is a German classical philologist , librarian and scientific author .

Life, university studies, doctorate, job

Almuth Märker grew up in Eisenach in Thuringia and attended the old-language branch of the Ernst Abbe High School there . After graduating from high school in 1985, she studied Classical Philology at Martin Luther University until 1990 . She studied u. a. with Wolfgang Kirsch , who aroused her interest in Middle Latin.

This was followed by research on the history of the University of Erfurt , which Almuth Märker published as a book in 1993 and thus gave an important impetus for the re-establishment of the university in Thuringia's state capital.

At the University of Göttingen she received her doctorate in 1998 in the subjects of Latin Philology of the Middle Ages and Modern Times, Medieval and Modern History, and Latin. She completed her legal clerkship for the higher service at libraries in Halle (Saale) and Cologne . After passing the second state examination in 2001, she temporarily taught at the University of Jena.

Almuth Märker has been working at the Manuscript Center of Leipzig University Library , the Albertina, since 2004 . She is a lecturer for the subjects of "historical holdings" and " preservation of holdings " of the library and information science course at the Leipzig University of Technology, Economics and Culture .

Märker is professionally involved in the emergency network of Leipzig Archives and Libraries, which she helped to establish.

Voluntary work at the Thomaskirche Leipzig

Almuth Märker was a member of the board of the Evangelical Lutheran Parish of St. Thomas Leipzig . She completed a degree in ecclesiastical distance learning in order to prepare for the service of an honorary preacher in the Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Saxony . Since June 30, 2013 she has been entitled to publicly proclaim her word. Almuth Märker was officially introduced to her service on September 1, 2013.

Fonts (selection)

• History of the University of Erfurt 1392-1816 . (Volume 1 of the writings of the association for the history and antiquity of Erfurt ). Weimar 1993, ISBN 3-7400-0814-8 .
• The Prohemium longum of the Erfurt Charterhouse Catalog from around 1475. Edition and investigation. 2 parts, Berlin, Frankfurt / Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-906769-97-4 (= dissertation).

as well as participation in

• Inka Baumann (Ed.): You turned my complaint - prayers from women . Wolff, Göttingen 1994.

Web links

• Literature by and about Almuth Märker in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ University website ( Memento from March 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Thomaskirche Leipzig (ed.): Thomasbrief . No. 4 . Leipzig, 2013, p. 24 ( archive.org [PDF; accessed March 14, 2020] archived from the original).