August Wilhelm Neuber

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August Wilhelm Neuber (born March 3, 1781 in Gross Salze , † January 22, 1849 in Aabenraa ) was a German doctor, poet and philosopher.

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Neuber studied medicine, most recently at the University of Kiel , where he received his doctorate in 1809. med. received his doctorate. He settled in Aabenraa as a general practitioner and in 1811 became the official physician for the city and office of Aabenraa. He held this office until his death. He was married to Karoline Friederike Dorothea Reinhold, a daughter of the philosopher Carl Leonhard Reinhold and granddaughter of Christoph Martin Wieland .

At his suggestion, a Baltic Sea resort was set up near Aabenraa in 1818, which initially ceased, but was later relaunched. In addition to his medical work and the publications resulting from it, he became known through his natural history observations and essays. He worked on Johann Christian Poggendorff's Annalen and Heinrich Christian Schumacher's Astronomische Nachrichten . As a religious philosopher, he took the standpoint of Enlightenment theology , so in his contribution to the dispute over the theses of Claus Harms . He was also active as a poet and translator.

The greatest aftereffect was his anti- Danish poem Das Schleilied , inspired by Nikolaus Becker's Rheinlied , which appeared in a Hadersleben newspaper in 1841 and was soon set to music by Carl Gottlieb Bellmann :

They shouldn't have it
The holy land of the Schlei!
They shouldn't have
the land so proud and free.
The Duke wrote it,
whom the people chose:
"Se schölln tosammen,
Op eternally remained ungeled!"

As a result, Up was eternally undelivered as the term used by the German Schleswig-Holsteiners on the Schleswig-Holstein question .

estate

In the City Library (Lübeck) there are 3 manuscript volumes of an epic didactic poem by Neuber from 1825 on the Old and New Testament in 24 chants.

Fonts

  • Dania. An allegorical drama. 1806
  • Religion and morality. 1818.
  • About the origin, establishment and excellent effectiveness of the seaside resort at Aabenraa. 1819
  • General representation of the basic faculties of the human soul. 1821
  • Observations on the effects of the seaside resort at Aabenraa. 1822
  • Poems. 4 volumes 1822
  • About the glow of the sea and about its content of specially modified animal and plant substances in: Hufelands Journal der Praxis Heilkunde 1824
  • Collectanea meteorologica Copenhagen 1829
  • About floating spots in the eye according to my own observations. 1830
  • To avert and heal the oriental nausea. 1831
  • About matter and primordial matter in its fourfold basic chemical ratio and its fivefold manifestation. 1830
  • Brief consideration of Pastor Harms' view of the linguistic matter. 1840
  • The name Aabenraa. 1840

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ms. theol. germ. 126 - 128, after Paul Hagen: The German theological manuscripts of the Lübeckische Stadtbibliothek. (Publications of the City Library of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck 1,2), Lübeck 1922, p. 80f
personal data
SURNAME Neuber, August Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, poet and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1781
PLACE OF BIRTH Big salts
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1849
Place of death Aabenraa