Johann Tobias Volkmar

Johann Tobias Volkmar (* 1718 ; † 1787 ) was a German Protestant pastor and geographer .

Life

After his work as a pastor in Petersdorf in Lower Silesia , he became a preacher , professor of theology and assessor of the consistory in Breslau . In addition to his church activities, he distinguished himself through geographical research. He became known as the author of one of the first scientific travelogues of the Giant Mountains , which was printed in 1777 .

Works

• Travels to the Giant Mountains , Bunzlau 1777.
• The worthy memory of the well-bored women women Johanna Elisabeth geb. Burgin, first widowed by Liebenau, last widowed Conradi, on the day of her public burial she rededicated the funeral speech given in the main church of St. Elisabeth , Breslau 1774.
• The fugitive and returned monk from Mount Athos: from the reports of a convert to the heathen to his friend in Europe , Breslau 1764.

literature

• Grzegorz Pisarski, "Podróże w Karkonosze" Jana Tobiasza Volkmara (1777) , in: Wierchy 63 (1997), pp. 84-94.