Joachim Marquardt

Karl Joachim Marquardt (19 April 1812 – 30 November 1882) was a German historian and writer on Roman antiquities.

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.

[1] The work took twenty years to complete, and met with such success that a new edition was soon called for.

[1] Its clearness of style, systematic arrangement, and abundant references to authorities ancient and modern, continue to make it valuable to students.

The school commissioned a medal to commemorate Marquardt, made by the local engraver Fredinand Helfricht and issued on November 30, 1883, the first anniversary of his death.