Martin Oloff

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Martin Oloff (* 1652 in Graudenz , Royal Prussia ; † August 29, 1715 in Thorn , Royal Prussia) was a German Lutheran pastor in the Kingdom of Poland .

Life

He was a son of Johann Oloff. 1675 he enrolled at the University in Königsberg and was 1,677 in the local cathedral ordained. Martin Oloff became a pastor in Wengrow in Mazovia. After the church there was badly damaged by deliberate fire in 1686, services could only be held in the rectory. In 1690 Oloff left after further repression against the community of Wengrow. He became pastor in Schlawatitz , from where he also looked after parishes in Piaski , Wielkanoc and other places.

In 1694 Martin Oloff became pastor of the Polish community at the Georgenkirche in Thorn. In 1701 he moved to the Marienkirche , where he stayed until his death in 1715.

Martin Oloff improved the Polish Lutheran hymnbook with others and translated some hymns for it.

progeny

Martin Oloff was the father of

  • Ephraim Oloff (1685–1735), pastor in Elbing and Thorn, drafting a collection of Polish hymns and a Polish song history
  • Johann Christian Oloff (1700–1744), pastor in Sluzk and Graudenz
  • a daughter who was married to Christophorus Ratzki († 1716), pastor in Thorn

literature

  • Eduard Kneifel : The pastors of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland , Eging 1967, DNB 457237694 ( PDF; 32.6 MB ). P. 142
  • Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund: Continuation and additions to Christian Gottlieb Jöcher's general lexicon of scholars . Bremen 1816. p. 1091
personal data
SURNAME Oloff, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran pastor in the Kingdom of Poland
DATE OF BIRTH 1652
PLACE OF BIRTH Graudenz, Royal Prussia
DATE OF DEATH August 29, 1715
Place of death Thorn, Royal Prussia