Christian Märklin

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Christian Märklin (born June 23, 1807 in Maulbronn ; † October 18, 1849 in Heilbronn ) was a Protestant theologian and educator .

Life

Christian Märklin was born in 1807 as the son of the seminar professor and later Heilbronn prelate Jakob Friedrich Märklin (1771–1841) in Maulbronn . In 1814 Jakob Friedrich Märklin became dean of the Neuenstadt church district , and Christian Märklin attended the Latin school in Neuenstadt am Kocher . After his father was transferred to Heilbronn , he passed the final examination at the Heilbronn grammar school in 1821 . From 1821 to 1825 he then attended, together with Friedrich Theodor Vischer and David Friedrich Strauss , the Evangelical-theological seminar in Blaubeuren . From 1825 to 1830 he studied Protestant theology in Tübingen, after which he held a vicar position in Brackenheim until 1832 .

In autumn 1834 he became a deacon in Calw , the stronghold of Württemberg Pietism . In 1835 he married Friederike Hoffmann, a Stuttgart civil servant's daughter, to whom he had become engaged in November 1833. He tried to provide support to his friend David Friedrich Strauss with his work, which appeared in 1839, to portray and criticize modern pietism and thus sparked heated theological discussions beyond the borders of Württemberg . Märklin's opponents prevented an appeal to a professorship in Tübingen. Instead, he applied for a vacancy as a professor of history and Latin at the Heilbronn grammar school, was accepted and moved with his family back to Heilbronn in October 1840, where his father, a married sister and many friends still lived. During the March Revolution of 1848 there was a public dispute between Märklin and the Republican Louis Hentges in the daily newspapers Heilbronner Tagblatt and Neckar-Dampfschiff . Märklin then wanted to run for the Frankfurt National Assembly as an advocate of a constitutional monarchy , but announced that he would not stand on April 22, 1848 after Hentges was appointed as his substitute. He died in 1849 at the age of 42.

His friend David Friedrich Strauss became Märklin's biographer. Furthermore, Märklin was in correspondence with Gustav Pfizer and Friedrich Theodor Vischer, Justinus Kerner , Ernst Rapp and Jakob Friedrich Märklin, Eduard Märklin, Emma Märklin, Eugenie Märklin and Friederike Märklin (see estate in the German Literature Archive Marbach ).

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personal data
SURNAME Märklin, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Maulbronn
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1849
Place of death Heilbronn