Johann Georg Volkmar

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Johann Georg Volkmar

Johann Georg Volkmar (born April 20, 1567 in Harra near Lobenstein , † March 15, 1596 in Wittenberg ) was a German Lutheran theologian.

Life

Born as the son of the pastor and superintendent Martin Volkmar, he attended high school in Hof . In 1585 he moved to the University of Jena , which he left because of the plague that occurred there in order to devote himself to further studies at the University of Frankfurt (Oder) , the University of Wittenberg and the University of Leipzig . Thereupon he went to the school in Lobenstein as rector in 1586, after two years he returned to Jena, where he obtained the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy in 1589 .

He then held disputations there and turned to studying theology. As part of the reorientation of the University of Wittenberg towards Lutheran orthodoxy after the death of Elector Christian I of Saxony , several teachers were dismissed. Therefore, Volkmar was appointed professor of history at the University of Wittenberg in 1593 . There he took over a professorship in theology after Samuel Huber was dismissed in 1595 and received his doctorate in the same year as a licentiate and under David Runge and under Aegidius Hunnius as a doctor of theology.

The doctor's feast and the associated celebrations took place in the Wittenberg Castle Church only 21 weeks after the doctorate . His work was mainly devoted to Melanchthon research. The hopes that were placed in him, however, destroyed an illness, so that he died without much work at the Wittenberg University at the age of 29 and found his final resting place on March 18 in the Wittenberg Castle Church.

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SURNAME Volkmar, Johann Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1567
PLACE OF BIRTH Harra
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1596
Place of death Wittenberg