The multi-volume work includes biographical descriptions of the scholars who have lived and worked in Rostock. This elaborate work was written by a Protestant theologian and historian Johann Bernhard Krey (*December 1771 + 6. October 1826)

This scholarly history (as the digital edition of the Rostock University Library was provided) He earned great merits in Mecklenburg. Krey had studied at the University of Rostock and theology in Jena.

In 1807 ordered him to be deacon and 1814 the pastor at St.. Petri in Rostock. 1816 He was Dr. of theology.

I. Band:

Henry Schmedenstedt (Wrought present) Peter Lindenberg (Lindenberg) Ernst August Rudloff, John Frederick King, Christian Ehrenfried Eschenbach, Joachim Hartmann, Jacob Hermann Lasius

II. Band:

Johann Oldendorp, Arnold Burenius, Johann Caselius, Nathan Chytraeus, Jacob Bording, d. Younger, Johann Quistorp of. Elder, Johann Tarnow, Joachim Sliiter, Joachim Luetke man, Theophil Gebauer large, Heinrich Mueller, John Fecht

III. Band:

Konrad level (Pegelius), David Chytraeus, Nikolaus Rutze, Jacob Bording, d. Elder, Henry Brucaeus, Heinrich Camerarius, Joachim Schroeder, Ernst Cothmann, Johann Heinrich chub, Nicholas Baumann, Nicholas Gryse

IV. Band:

George Venice (Venetus), Nicholas Marschalk (Thurius), Beaten Levinus, Hinrich Pauli (Arsenius), Lucas Bacmeister, d. Elder, John (of) Borcholten, Magnus Pegel (Pegelius), Justus Christoph Schomer (Schomerus), John Small

In. Band:

ohann Draconites (Drach), Martin Chemnitz d. Elder, Peter Capitaneus (Strategeus), Johann Georg cod (Dorschäus), William of Calcheim (Calckum), called Lohausen, Johannes Affelmann, Johann Christian Petersen, Daniel Georg Morhof

WE. Band:

Hermann von dem Busche, Simon Pauli, d. Elder, Johann Georg Godelmann, Jakob Faber (also: Fabricius), Paul Tarnow, Johannes Posselius, d. Elder, Samuel Bohl, Eilhard Lubinus (Luebben), Johann Joachim Creator, Johann Lauremberg

VII. Band:

Ulrich von Hutten, Tilemann Hesshusius (Hess Husen), Adam Tratziger, John Kittel, Gisbert Longolius, Johannes Assverus Ampsing, Johann Quistorp of. Younger, Andreas Tscherning, Johann Wilhelm Petersen, Johann Christian Schroeder

VIII. Band:

Tycho Brahe, Johann Saliger (Seliger; Beatus), Joachim Schnobel, Christian Kortholt, Sebastian Wirdig, George Frederick Stieber, Christoph David Anton Martini, Oluf Gerhard Tychsen, Joachim Heinrich Schröder, Johann Christian Wilhelm Dahl

Appendix, last changes

His Biography:

In: General German Biography (ADB). Band 17, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, S. 150.

Other literature:

Memories of Duke Henry V. and Johann Albrecht I. of Mecklenburg, at the third Säcularfeier of Luther's Reformation, Rust. 1817;

The humanists Rostock'schen. A historic trial in 2 Half. Rostock 1817 and 1818

The theologians since Rostock'schen 1523. A historic trial, Rostock 1817;

Contributions to churches Mecklenburg- and scholarly history, Band1 and Band 2, Rostock 1818, 1821–23.