Otto Wolff (theologian, 1794)

Otto Wolff (born January 29, 1794 in Altkünkendorf near Angermünde , † 1877 ) was a German Protestant clergyman .

Otto Wolff began an apprenticeship as a pharmacist in 1807 and then entered the upper secondary school at the Gray Monastery in Berlin in 1809. In 1813/14 he did military service and then studied theology at the University of Breslau . In 1817 he became a teacher and educator at the cadet house in Kulm in West Prussia , and in 1818 at an educational institution in Breslau. From 1821 he worked as a pastor and teacher in Waldenburg , from 1829 as a pastor in Grünberg in Silesia .

In addition to ecclesiastical and local history treatises, he wrote a work History of the Mongols or Tatars , especially their advance into Europe (1872). He was Royal Superintendent , Knight of the Red Eagle Order 3rd Class with Schl., Corresponding member of the Silesian Society for Patriotic Culture (1841) as well as a member of the Association for the History and Antiquity of Silesia .

Fonts (selection)

• History of the Protestant town and country community Grünberg from the times of the Reformation to the first Silesian Peace in 1742. Levysohn and Siebert, Grünberg 1841.
• History of the city of Grünberg in Lower Silesia from its creation to the introduction of the Reformation. Weiss, Grünberg 1848 ( digitized version ).
• The famous Lehnin prophecy about the fate of the Margraviate of Brandenburg and the House of Hohenzollern , their origin, author, becoming known, meaning, etc. Content, as well as the older u. more recent hypotheses historically critically examined, honored and explained. Weiss, Grünberg 1850. ( digitized version ).
• Critical review of the history of the city and the Duchy of Sagan. As they were named by A. Leipelt, Mathematikus am Kgl. Catholic high school at Sagan, has been depicted. Weiss, Grünberg 1854 ( digitized version ).
• The book of Judith is defended and explained as a historical document. In addition to detailed studies on the duration and extent of the Assyrian rule in Asia and Egypt, on the Hyksos, on the original seats of the Chaldeans and their connection with the Scythians, on Phud, Lud, Elam, Chna etc. Dörffling and Franke, Leipzig 1861.
• History of the Mongols or Tatars, especially of their advance into Europe, as well as of their conquests and incursions in this part of the world. Dülser, Breslau 1872 ( digitized version ).

literature

• Karl Gabriel Nowack: Silesian writer lexicon . Issue 6, Korn, Breslau 1843, pp. 162–166 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Writings by Otto Wolff at the German Digital Library