Gottlieb Mohnike
Gottlieb Christian Friedrich Mohnike (born January 6, 1781 in Grimmen ; † July 6, 1841 in Stralsund ) was a German translator , theologian and philologist .
Life
Gottlieb Mohnike was born as the son of the businessman and councilor Andreas Christian Mohnike (1742–1813).
He attended the Stralsund high school and matriculated in Greifswald in 1799 and in Jena in 1801 as a theology student. On May 5, 1803, he passed the theological examination in Greifswald. He then worked for several years as a private teacher and educator on Rügen . On November 1, 1810, he became vice principal of the Greifswald city school . In 1813 he was appointed pastor of the St. Jakobi Church in Stralsund, from 1819 took over the duties of consistorial and school council and was head of the government school authority. In 1824 he was awarded an honorary doctorate in theology in Greifswald. Mohnike was lifelong friends with his compatriot Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769–1860), as well as with the natural philosopher and fellow student from Jena Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert , with whom he maintained a lively correspondence.
In Grimmen and Stralsund ( Gottlieb-Mohnike-Straße ) streets are named after him.
family
On November 9, 1810, he married Karoline von Stucker (1789–1849), daughter of the city physician in Grimmen, Dr. Johann Philipp von Stucker and Eleonore Billroth. The marriage resulted in 9 children, including the doctor Otto Gottlieb Mohnike (1814–1887), who made a name for himself in the field of widespread smallpox vaccination in Japan, and Selma Mohnike (1828–1878) , who also worked as a writer and translator ).
Awards
- North Star Order
- Order of the Red Eagle 3rd class with the ribbon
Works
Mohnike translated and mediated numerous older and more recent Scandinavian texts, including works by Esaias Tegnér and the old Icelandic Faroese saga and the Heimskringla . He is considered one of the founders of Scandinavian studies . Numerous studies on the literature of the Romans and Greeks, Pomeranian and church history and hymnology come from him . He published the “lawsuits against Wedeg Loetz and his son Henning”, a poetic early work by Ulrich von Hutten from 1509, in a Latin-German edition with commentary (Greifswald 1816).
literature
- Detlef Brennecke: Tegnér in Germany; A study on d. Translations Amalie von Helvigs u. Gottlieb Mohnikes. Heidelberg 1975.
- Dietmar Gohlisch: Mohnike, Gottlieb. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 698 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Adolf Häckermann : Mohnike, Gottlieb . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, pp. 62-64.
- FL Hoffmann: Gottlieb Mohnike . In: Serapeum: Journal for Library Studies, Manuscript Studies and Older Literature (Emil Wilhelm Robert Neumann, Editor), Volume 30, No. 19, Leipzig, October 15, 1869, pp. 300–302 ( online ); Continued in: No. 20, Leipzig, October 31, 1869, pp. 305-312 ( online ).
- Erika Wiehe: Gottlieb Mohnike as a mediator and translator of Nordic literature. Greifswald 1934.
Web links
- Literature by and about Gottlieb Mohnike in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Gottlieb Mohnike in the German Digital Library
- Literature about Gottlieb Mohnike in the state bibliography MV
- Gottlieb Mohnike in the Internet Archive
Individual evidence
- ↑ u. a. Gottlieb Christoph Friedrich Mohnike: The history of the book printing art in Pomerania. Bülow, Stettin 1840. ( digitized in the digital library Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mohnike, Gottlieb |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mohnike, Gottlieb Christian Friedrich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German translator , theologian and philologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 6, 1781 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Grim |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 6, 1841 |
| Place of death | Stralsund |