Arnold Greve

Arnold Greve (born July 8, 1700 in Hamburg ; † November 18, 1754 there ) was a German Protestant theologian and historian.

Life

Born as the son of a Hamburg merchant of the same name († 1731), who also held municipal offices, he attended the Johanneum 's school of scholars and the grammar school in his hometown. He then went to the University of Wittenberg where he obtained the academic degree of master's degree in 1722 . He returned to his homeland and in 1727 took over the pastorate of the rural community Moorfleth. On May 12th, 1737 he became a deacon at St. Katharinenkirche in Hamburg, where he rose to archdeacon in 1749 and in which office he died.

In addition to his theological work, Greve dealt with church history. He published a biography of the oldest superintendent, which he had compiled from Hamburg's files. In the work published in 1744 and 1748, he deals with the biographies of Johannes Aepinus , Paul von Eitzen and Joachim Westphal and thus made a major contribution to the history of the Reformation. A few smaller disputations have also become known.

Of his children, Johann Christoph Greve has become the best known, he was superintendent in the Lüne monastery and died in 1814.

literature

• Unknown author:  Greve, Arnold . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 647.