Georg Joachim Mark

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Georg Joachim Mark (born March 1, 1726 in Schwerin ; † March 5, 1774 ) was a German Lutheran theologian and librarian.

Life

Georg Joachim Mark was the son of the rector of the Schwerin Cathedral School Nicolaus Jacob Mark († 1747). From 1741 he studied theology at the University of Kiel , where he received his master's degree in 1745 with his dissertation on the King James Bible , the English translation of the Bible from 1611 . He was promoted in Kiel by his uncle Ernst Joachim Westphal . He first became assessor at the Philosophical Faculty in Kiel and in 1752 librarian to Hereditary Prince Ludwig of Mecklenburg . In 1758 he was appointed full professor of theology in Kiel and held this professorship until his death. It was in 1766 at the University of Greifswald Dr. theol. PhD and was a member of the German Society of Greifswald . In the year before his death, he bequeathed his library to Kiel University Library . He also donated a scholarship. Mark wrote numerous theological writings as well as poems and spiritual songs.

literature

  • Heinrich Döring : The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: depicted according to their life and work . Volume 2 (JM) Neustadt ad Orla: JKG Wagner, 1832, p 395 -398 (including publication list)
  • lu:  Mark, George Joachim . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, p. 383.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Carl Wex : On the history of the Schwerin school of learning. A reference to the three-hundred-year anniversary to be celebrated on August 4, 1853 , Schwerin 1853, p. 57
  2. ↑ Academic news for the year 1773 and 74: in which ... the names and offices of all teachers living now at academies in and outside Germany are located , published by JDM Kammerers seel. Wittwe., 1773, p. 106
personal data
SURNAME Mark, Georg Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1726
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH March 5, 1774