Christian Gottlob Thube

Christian Gottlob Thube (born March 19, 1742 in Schlegel , † January 26, 1826 in Baumgarten ) was a German Protestant theologian, mystic and prophet.

Life

The son of a teacher owed his scientific education to the University of Leipzig . It was there that Christian August Crusius gained the most decisive, but not most advantageous, influence on the direction of his spirit . It was through him that he had been drawn to mysticism and religious infatuation. His favorite reading was and remained the Apocalypse , to which all his ideas and conceptions related even in later years. That biblical book served him as the basis of the theological system he gradually developed and, assuming baseless hypotheses, he applied his knowledge of the language and his erudition to the explanation of the Revelation of John.

From Halle (Saale) , where he had been a teacher at the local pedagogy for a while, he went to Mecklenburg in 1775, where he received the position of rector at the Bützow school . In Mecklenburg, where at that time the innocence and benevolence of Duke Friedrich was abused by bigots and hypocrites in multiple ways to oust legal men through secret denunciation and persecution, Thube's penchant for mysticism received ample nourishment. He had already become a preacher in Baumgarten in 1776. He has held this position for a number of years since then. In 1818 he became a senior in the Bützow circle and died at the age of 84 without experiencing the end of the world, which he often predicted as very close.

Act

As a writer, Thube gave himself and in terms of church history also Mecklenburg a bad reputation through his untenable hypotheses of the interpretation of biblical, especially apocalyptic prophecies and their application to current or expected events. His spirit took this direction especially in the text The Coming 40 Years , published in 1796, but also in his translations and explanations of the prophets Daniel and Zechariah. He defended his views, especially against beasts in Berlin in 1802, with more passion than his liberal way of thinking was proper. His character as a person was characterized by righteousness, honesty, benevolence towards the poor and the conscientious fulfillment of the duties that his office as a preacher and pastor brought with it.

Works

• What has to happen in a hurry. Guide to Correct Understanding of Revelation John. Minden and Leipzig 1786, 2nd edition Schwerin 1799
• Handbook of Divine Knowledge, written for general use. Minden and Leipzig 1789
• About the French Revolution in 1794
• Memory of a sermon given at Ludwigsluft. 1795
• Over the next 40 years. Schwerin and Wismar 1796, 3rd edition (under the title: About the next 40 years, about the papacy and about Egvpten, together with some related leaflets. ) Schwerin and Wismar 1798, 4th edition, Schwerin and Wismar 1811
• About the 12th day of the wine month. Schwerin and Wismar 1796. 8. Supplement to this. Schwerin and Wismar 1797
• The book of the prophet Daniel, overlooked and explained. Schwerin and Wismar 1797
• About the Mecklenburgische Predigerwittwencasse, together with an attachment to this article. Rostock 1799
• Brief epitome of belief and ethics, presented in questions and answers. Schwerin 1801 (actually 1800), 2nd edition Schwerin 1811
• The book of the prophet Zechariah, translated and explained again. Schwerin 1801
• Well-deserved chastisement of Mr. Beasts of Berlin; plus side dish. Schwerin 1802
• Incontrovertible proof presented from the Jenaische Allgemeine Literaturzeitung that my translation and declaration by the prophet Zechariah is impeccable and nothing against it. Schwerin 1803
• Condemnation of the so-called evangel. Christian association. Rostock 1815
• A frank word to the noble knighthood and landscape of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. 1818
• Something else about the taxation of the clergy in the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg. Guestrow 1818
• Something for the Jews, at the expense of Christian friends. 1823

literature

• Friedrich August Schmidt: New necrology of the Germans. Verlag Bernhardt Friedrich Voigt, Ilmenau 1828, 4th year 1826, p. 774, ( online )
• Heinrich Doering : The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Verlag Johann Karl Gottfried Wagner, 1835, Neustadt an der Orla, vol. 4, p. 484, ( online )
• Georg Christoph Hamberger , Johann Georg Meusel : The learned Teutschland, or lexicon of the now living German writers. Verlag Meyer, Lemgo, 5th ed., 1800, vol. 8, p. 59, ( online ); 1803, Vol. 10, p. 743, ( online ); 1812, vol. 16, p. 25, ( online ); 1827, vol. 21, p. 63, ( online )
• Frank evening paper. Bärensprung, Schwerin, 1826, 8th year, p. 774, ( online )
• Stephan Sehlke: Pädagogen- Pastoren- Patrioten, biographical manual on printed matter for children and young people by authors and illustrators from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania until 1945. Books on Demand, Norderstedt, 2009, ISBN 9783837094978 , p. 379

Web link

• Literature about Christian Gottlob Thube in the state bibliography MV