Ephraim Oloff

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Ephraim Oloff (born September 27, 1685 near Warsaw , † June 15, 1735 in Thorn ) was a German Lutheran pastor, bibliographer and hymnologist .

Life

Ephraim Oloff was born while his mother was traveling on the Vistula , some 8 miles (40 kilometers) beyond Warsaw . His father Martin Oloff was a preacher in Wengrow at the time , wherever she wanted to go. In 1694 the family moved to Thorn , and since then the boy has attended the local grammar school . He graduated in 1706 and began studying Protestant theology at the University of Leipzig .

In 1712 Ephraim Oloff was appointed professor at the grammar school in Thorn. There he taught the Polish language , but also the Hebrew language , history and geography. From 1713 he was a German and Polish preacher at the Lutheran Church of the Holy Spirit in Elbing . There he married the merchant's daughter Christina Grass in 1724.

In 1721 Oloff became a German and Polish preacher at the Dreifaltigkeitskirche in Thorn. In 1724 he was accused during the riots in the city , but it could not be proven that he was involved in the events. Nevertheless, he fled to the neighboring Kingdom of Prussia . After the Thorner court acquitted him, he returned to the city in 1725 with a letter of safe conduct from King Friedrich Wilhelm and was able to work again as a Protestant preacher. He died here in 1735.

Scientific activity

In addition to his professional activity, Oloff was a passionate bibliographer. He dealt with the history of the Thorner Reformation. A manuscript that was later lost dealt with the history of Polish printing. In 1727 the collection of German songs was translated into Polish . Oloff's greatest achievement was the scientific preparation of the Polish hymnology, which appeared after his death in Danzig in 1744 under the title Polish Song History of Polish Church Chants and the Same Poets and Translators .

literature

  • George Gottlieb Dittmann: Contributions to the history of the city of Thorn . 1st volume. 1789 p. 54
  • Ryszard J. Wieczorek: Ephraim Oloff and his Polish song history (Danzig 1744) in: Heike Müns (Hrsg.): Music and Migration in East Central Europe . Munich 2000, pp. 141–152

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund: continuation and additions to Christian Gottlieb Jöchers general scholarly lexicon . Bremen 1816. p. 1091
personal data
SURNAME Oloff, Ephraim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oloff, Efraim (Polish)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran pastor in the Polish-Prussian Elbing and Thorn, author of a collection of Polish church hymns and a Polish song history
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1685
PLACE OF BIRTH near Warsaw
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 1735
Place of death Thorn , Polish Prussia