Jakob Christoph Wolff
Jakob Christoph Wolff , also Jacobus Christophorus Wolffius (born April 9, 1693 in Rostock ; † March 21, 1758 ibid) was a German Lutheran theologian and university professor.
Life
Jakob Christoph Wolff was the son of the pastor of the St. Mary's Church in Rostock and professor of theology at the University of Franz Wolff there and his wife Anna, nee. Schuckmann (1653–1716), daughter of the Rostock theology professor Hermann Schuckmann (1616–1686). Wolff studied from 1711 in Rostock and from 1714 at the University of Tübingen . Study trips then took him to Strasbourg, Leipzig, Halle and Wittenberg. In 1720 he underwent his master's degree in Rostock . From the winter of 1721/22 he worked as a private lecturer in Rostock and was appointed professor of the Greek language (councilor) in 1725 to succeed Jacob Burgmann . In 1735 he was rector of the university. In addition to his professorship, he was archdeacon from 1747 and pastor at St. Mary's Church from 1757. Wolff died suddenly of a stroke on March 21, 1758 .
Jakob Christoph Wolff was married to Anna Elisabeth, born on February 17, 1736. Konow, daughter of the Rostock councilor and court judge Heinrich Konow in Güstrow.
literature
- Paul Falkenberg : The professors of the University of Rostock from 1600 to 1900. Manuscript, Rostock around 1900.
- Gustav Willgeroth : The Mecklenburg-Schwerin Parishes since the Thirty Years' War: with comments on the previous pastors since the Reformation. Volume 3, self-published, Wismar 1925, p. 1418.
Web links
- Literature about Jakob Christoph Wolff in the state bibliography MV
- Works by Jakob Christoph Wolff in the state bibliography MV
- Entry on Jakob Christoph Wolff in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
- Entry on Jakob Christoph Wolff in the CERL Thesaurus
- Publications by and about Jakob Christoph Wolff in VD 18 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entries on Jakob Christoph Wolff in the Rostock matriculation portal
- ^ Albert Bürk / Wilhelm Wille: The register of the University of Tübingen. Volume 3 (1710-1817), Tübingen 1953, p. 17, No. 31.235: May 15, 1714, Jacobus Christophorus Wolff Rostoch [iensis]. Meg [apolensium].
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SURNAME | Wolff, Jakob Christoph |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wolffius, Jacobus Christophorus |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Lutheran theologian and university professor |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 9, 1693 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Rostock |
DATE OF DEATH | March 21, 1758 |
Place of death | Rostock |