Johann Gottlieb Rudolphi

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Johann Gottlieb (Polycarp) Rudolphi (born July 24, 1760 in Friedland (Mecklenburg) ; † January 31, 1838 ibid) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian, pastor at the parish church of St. Marien (Friedland) and Mecklenburg history researcher.

Life

Johann Gottlieb Rudolphi came from a Mecklenburg pastor family who provided pastors for the Marienkirche in Friedland for over three generations. He was a son of Polycarp Gottfried Rudolphi (1733–1786) and his wife Maria Christina, geb. Cortum. He attended the scholars' school in Friedland and studied Protestant theology at the University of Göttingen from 1779 to 1781 . After completing his studies, he first became a private tutor in Neubrandenburg . In 1786, after the death of his father, he took over his pastor at the Marienkirche in Friedland. Here he worked until the end of his life and celebrated his 50th anniversary in office in 1836.

He was married to Christiane, geb. Masch (1767–1844), a daughter of the Neustrelitz superintendent Andreas Gottlieb Masch . The couple had a son and five daughters. 34 grandchildren and great-grandchildren gathered for the jubilee in 1836.

Since 1835 he was a member of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology . He researched the history and nature of Mecklenburg and built up a large collection of Mecklenburg natural objects and antiques. This considerable private collection of its kind throughout Mecklenburg went to his son, the Mirower physicist Bernhard Rudolphi (1799–1864) after his death . A large part came in 1842 in the Grand Ducal antiquities collection to Neustrelitz, a smaller part later to his son Adolph Rudolphi , including one in Mirow found agate - Gemme and in Lübbersdorf found Roman Tripus, 1880 the meeting of the Anthropological German Society issued in Berlin.

Rudolphi was an honorary member of the Mecklenburg Natural Research Society in Rostock, which was founded in 1800 .

Fonts

  • Charitable news from an improved school institution. 1801.
  • Some short news and history from the city of Friedland. 1803.
  • Attempt to explain the names of towns and villages in our homeland. 1802.

literature

  • Friedrich Brüssow: Johann Gottlieb Polykarp Rudolphi . In: New Nekrolog der Deutsche. 16? I (1838), Voigt, Weimar 1840, pp. 141-143, no. 53.
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 8365 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Krüger-Haye : The pastors in the land of Stargard. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Antiquity 69 (1904), pp. 1–270 ( full text ), here p. 48.
  2. ^ Brüssow (lit.), p. 143.
  3. ↑ See note 16 in: Heinrich Reifferscheid: Friedrich Lisch, Mecklenburgs pioneering German antiquity. In: Mecklenburgische Jahrbücher 99 (1935), pp. 261–276 ( full text ).
  4. ↑ Described in the annual report of the Association for Meklenburgische Geschichte und Alterthumskunde, from the negotiations of the Association 1 (1836), p. 35f ( full text ).
  5. ^ Catalog of the exhibition of prehistoric and anthropological finds. Berg & Holten, Berlin 1880, p. 303.
personal data
SURNAME Rudolphi, Johann Gottlieb
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rudolphi, Johann Gottlieb Polycarp (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1760
PLACE OF BIRTH Friedland (Mecklenburg)
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1838
Place of death Friedland (Mecklenburg)