Gottlieb Mohnike
Gottlieb Mohnike ( born January 6, 1781 Pommern, † July 6, 1841 in Stralsund; Complete name: Gottlieb Christian Friedrich Mohnike ) was a German translator, theologian and philologist.
Life
Gottlieb Mohnike was born in 1781 in Pomerania, where his father Andreas Christian ( 1742-1813 ) was a merchant and alderman. He attended the High School of Stralsund and in 1799 enrolled in Greifswald and 1801 in Jena as a student of theology. He insisted on 5 May 1803, the theological examination at Greifswald. He then worked for several years as a private teacher and educator on Rügen. On November 1, 1810, he was vice-principal of Greifswald city school. He was appointed in 1813 as pastor of St. James Church to Stralsund, took over from 1819, the same tasks as Consistorial and school board and was head of the government education authority. 1824 Honorary Doctor of Divinity, he was awarded in Greifswald. Mohnike been a lifetime friend of his compatriot Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769-1860) as well as with the natural philosophers and Jena fellow students Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert, with whom he maintained a lively correspondence.
In Pomerania and Stralsund ( Gottlieb Mohnike Street) streets are named after him.
Family
On November 9, 1810, he married Caroline of Stucker (1789 - 1849), daughter of the town physician in Pomerania, Dr. Johann Philipp von Stucker and Eleonore Bill Roth. The marriage produced nine children were born, including the doctor Otto Gottlieb Mohnike (1814 - 1887), who made himself especially in the field of widespread smallpox vaccination in Japan a name, and also active as a writer and translator Selma Mohnike ( 1828-1878 ).
Awards
- North Star Medal
- Red Eagle Order 3rd class with the loop
Works
Mohnike translated and mediated among other things, numerous ancient and modern Scandinavian texts, including works by Esaias Tegnér and the Old Icelandic and Faroese Heimskringla. He is considered one of the founders of Scandinavian Studies. He wrote numerous studies on the literature of the Romans and Greeks, the Pomeranian history and church history and hymnology. He gave the " lawsuits against Wedeg Loetz and whose son Henning ," a poetic early work of Ulrich von Hutten of 1509, in an annotated Latin- German edition out ( Greifswald 1816).