Marcus Sachs

Prof Marcus Sachs DD (1812–1869) was a 19th-century Polish Jew who emigrated to Scotland and became Professor of Hebrew at Aberdeen University.[1]

Life

He was born the son of an engineer in Inowroclaw in the Grand Duchy of Posen in what is now central Poland. He studied at Berlin University.[2]

He came to Britain in 1842 and converted to Christianity. He was baptised by Rev John Brown at Broughton Place church soon after arriving.[3] He enrolled to train as a Free Church minister at New College, Edinburgh in 1843. He began teaching Hebrew at the Free Church College in Aberdeen in 1846. He was made a Professor in 1855.[4]

He lived his final years at Kepplestone Cottage in Rubislaw, Aberdeen.[5]

He died at Polmuir in Aberdeen on 29 September 1869.[6]

Family

In 1850, somewhat late in life, he married Mary Shier (1809-1915) a few years his senior.

This remarkable woman was the daughter of David Shier, a surveyor in Aberdeen. They married at Old Machar, and did not have children. She married after he died, Francis Edmond, a Haddington advocate. She also outlived her second husband and died in Cardiff aged 105, leaving a considerable fortune.[7]

Publications
  • The Prophetic Agency (1855)
  • The Scattered Nation (joint author with Rev Adolph Saphir)

References
  1. The Emergence of the Hebrew Christian Movement in 19th Century Britain; Lord Darby
  2. Free Church Monthly; April 1870
  3. Free Church Monthly April 1870
  4. Ewing, William Annals of the Free Church
  5. Aberdeen Post Office Directory 1868
  6. Dundee Courier (newspaper) 1 October 1869
  7. Gazette Times 15 May 1915


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