{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}} '''Marcus Sachs''' (1812–1869) was a Polish Jew who emigrated to Scotland and became Professor of Hebrew at the Free Church Divinity Hall in Aberdeen (later known as Christ's College).<ref>''The Emergence of the Hebrew Christian Movement in 19th Century Britain''; Lord Darby</ref>
==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.<ref>''Free Church Monthly''; April 1870</ref>
He came to Britain in 1842 and converted to Christianity. He was baptised by Rev John Brown at Broughton Place church soon after arriving.<ref>Free Church Monthly April 1870</ref> 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.<ref>Ewing, William ''Annals of the Free Church''</ref>
He lived his final years at Kepplestone Cottage in Rubislaw, Aberdeen.<ref>Aberdeen Post Office Directory 1868</ref>
He died at Polmuir in Aberdeen on 29 September 1869.<ref>Dundee Courier (newspaper) 1 October 1869</ref>
==Family== In 1850, somewhat late in life, he married Mary Shier (1809-1915) a few years his senior. She 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.<ref>Gazette Times 15 May 1915</ref>
==Publications== *''The Prophetic Agency'' (1855) *''The Scattered Nation'' (joint author with Rev Adolph Saphir)
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