Christian Gottlob Gerber

Christian Gottlob Gerber (born October 14, 1686 in Rothschönberg , † April 10, 1764 in Lockwitz ) was a German Lutheran theologian and historian.

Life

Born as the son of Christian Gerber , he studied at the University of Leipzig and moved to the University of Wittenberg , where on April 30, 1708 he obtained the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy. In 1710 he became his father's substitute in Lockwitz and after his death in 1731 he took over his position as the palace church pastor, which he filled until the end of his life.

Gerber completed the description of the church ceremonies etc. that his father had begun (Dresden and Leipzig 1732). The last 16 chapters are entirely by him. He is also the author of a local chronicle of Lockwitz. In memory of his work, Gerberstrasse in Lockwitz was named after him.

Works

• Short lessons from the Reformation Lutheri. 1717
• Old and new from Lockwitz and Nickern, or a short chronicle of these two places. Pirna 1723
• Fifty questions for the simple-minded and children, with a historical narrative and a brief idea of ​​the entire order of salvation. 2nd increased edition 1739 The first edition is in Feines father's history of the born again. (1728)
• Defense of his father against M. Winter'n, on the occasion of the question: Whether the saints pray for their survivors here on earth in general and in particular? in the above-mentioned history of the re-drilled Th. 6
• Four songs so he made for Easter. 1741
• Preface to Genzke'n's instruction to live happily. Hamburg 1718

literature

• Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Gerhard Fleischer the Younger, Leipzig, 1804, Vol. 4, pp. 103-104