Mövius Völschow

Mövius Völschow (born May 7, 1588 in Greifswald , † July 8, 1650 ibid) was a Lutheran theologian and general superintendent of Pomerania-Wolgast.

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Mövius Völschow was born as the son of the councilor and commissioner at St. Jakobi in Greifswald and his wife Sibylla Mewes. He attended the Greifswald city school , switched to the Sundisches Gymnasium in Stralsund in 1604 and to the Stettin pedagogy in 1606 . In 1610 he studied at the University of Wittenberg , where he received his master's degree , and then at the universities of Leipzig , Jena , Marburg and Gießen .

In 1612 he became professor of mathematics at the University of Greifswald . Duke Philipp Julius von Pommern-Wolgast called Völschow to the preposition in Bergen on Rügen , and in 1622 he became a preposition in Demmin . In 1626 he earned the degree of Doctor of Theology.

In 1642 Mövius Völschow became pastor at St. Nikolai in Greifswald and general superintendent in the Pommern-Wolgast area. He held these offices until his death in 1650.

Mövius Völschow married Ursula Fabricius († 1629), daughter of General Superintendent Jakob Fabricius , in 1615 , and Ilsabe von Krakevitz, daughter of his predecessor General Superintendent Barthold von Krakevitz , in 1631 .

Fonts

• Tuba Christi , 1619 (caused by the appearance of a large comet in November 1618)
• Incendium Bergense , 1621 (Sermon of Penance)

See also

• List of rectors at the University of Greifswald
• Pomeranian Evangelical Church

literature

• Hans Moderow , Ernst Müller, Hellmuth Heyden : The evangelical clergy of Pomerania from the Reformation to the present. 4 parts. 1903, 1912, 1956, 1965.

Web links

• Grave slab M. Völschow from 1688 in St. Nikolai Cathedral in front of Chapel XIII

predecessor	Office	successor
Barthold von Krakevitz	General superintendent of Pommern-Wolgast 1642–1650	Christian Groß

predecessor	Office	successor
Johann Bering	Rector of the University of Greifswald 1643/44	Joachim Völschow