August Gottlieb Ludwig Hering
August Gottlieb Ludwig Hering (born October 16, 1736 in Stettin , † February 12, 1770 in Köslin ) was a German lawyer who emerged as a poet of evangelical sacred songs.
His parents were the respected Stettin lawyer Johann Samuel Hering and his third wife, a née von Schmitterloe . August Gottlieb Ludwig Hering attended the Academic Gymnasium Stettin . Here he composed and published a long ode to King Frederick the Great in 1754 . In the print he is referred to as "the theology devoted".
However, he then studied law at the University of Halle . He entered the Prussian civil service and soon became court judge at the court in Köslin . He died here in 1770.
After his death, several of his spiritual odes and songs were published in the Pomeranian Archive of Science and Taste , which was published from 1783 .
literature
- Carl Bertheau : Hering, August Gottlieb Ludwig . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 113 f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eckhard Wendt: Stettiner Lebensbilder (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania . Series V, Volume 40). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-412-09404-8 , p. 231 (in the article about his father).
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| SURNAME | Hering, August Gottlieb Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer, poet of evangelical sacred songs |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 16, 1736 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Szczecin |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 12, 1770 |
| Place of death | Koslin |