Joachim Marquardt
German classical philologist, historian, and teacher
About Joachim Marquardt
Lived 1812 – 1882 (aged 70). Joachim Marquardt was a German classical philologist, historian, head teacher, schulrat, librarian and classical scholar.
Karl Joachim Marquardt (19 April 1812 – 30 November 1882) was a German historian and writer on Roman antiquities.
In his later life he was Rector of the Ernestine Gymnasium, Gotha.
Biography Marquardt was born at Danzig.
He studied at Berlin and Leipzig, held various educational appointments from 1833 onwards at Berlin, Danzig, and Posen, and became in 1859 head of the gymnasium in Gotha, where he died in 1882. The dedication of his treatise Historiae equitum romanorum libri quatuor (1841) to Lachmann led to his being recommended to the publisher of Wilhelm Adolf Becker's Handbuch der römischen Alterthumer to continue the work on the death of Becker in 1846.
Literature Kai Brodersen, Introduction in: Joachim Marquardt, Das Privatleben der Römer, new edition, Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2016, pp. v-viii,
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German classical philologist, historian, and teacher (1812–1882)
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Joachim Marquardt was born on 19 April 1812 in Gdańsk.
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Joachim Marquardt died on 30 November 1882 in Gotha.
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Joachim Marquardt was a classical philologist, historian, head teacher, schulrat, librarian and classical scholar.
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