Eberhard David Hauber
Eberhard David Hauber (born May 27, 1695 in Hohenhaslach , † February 15, 1765 in Copenhagen ) was a German Lutheran theologian and map historian. He was superintendent of Stadthagen for around 20 years and later consistorial councilor in Copenhagen.
Life
Hauber came from a Swabian family of pastors, his father Johann Eberhard Hauber (1647–1729) was a pastor in Hohenhaslach. Eberhard David was the youngest of ten children. He spent his childhood in Hohenhaslach and came with his family to Vaihingen an der Enz in 1706 , where he attended Latin school. He then studied theology in Tübingen and mathematics and natural sciences in Altdorf near Nuremberg . After completing his studies, he was first assistant preacher to his father, then tutor in Tübingen and in 1724 vicar at the Stuttgart collegiate church and the ducal Württemberg court chapel. After the Württemberg Duke professor of mathematics at him Stuttgart High School had denied he was to 1726 to an offer of Count Friedrich Christian to Schaumburg-Lippe toward Superintendent in Stadthagen , where he pietistic and enlightening unified thought. In Stadthagen he abolished the exorcism of the devil and confession of the ears , was one of the founders of the Lutheran orphanage and a girls' school and gave private lessons in Greek, Chaldean, Syriac, geography, history, algebra, trigonometry and astronomy. He wrote numerous works in Stadthagen, including the New Introduction to Geography, especially in Teutschland (1727), the Harmony of the Evangelists (1737), The Life of Jesus Christ (1737) and the Schaumburg-Lippische Gesangbuch (1745), which survived for a long time . In response to witch trials and the driving out of the devil, he wrote the three-volume work Bibliotheca, acta et scripta magica from 1738 to 1745 : Thorough reports and judgments of such books and actions that concern the power of the devil in bodily matters . He resigned from his office in Stadthagen in 1746 and instead turned to Copenhagen , where he became second pastor of the German St. Petri Congregation and consistorial councilor. From 1751 Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock was one of Hauber's circle of friends and used his library of 20,000 volumes while he was writing his epic The Messiah .
From 1726 Hauber was married to Maria Katharina Sigel (1697–1759), a pharmacist's daughter from Vaihingen. The marriage had two sons and two daughters. Hauber was buried in St. Peter's Cemetery in Copenhagen, and his library was auctioned off in the years after his death.
Hauber was a foreign member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences since 1724 and since August 12, 1728 with the academic surname Demostratus II. Member ( registration number 404 ) of the Leopoldina .
literature
- Helmut Orth: Eberhard David Hauber (1695–1765): The scholar from Hohenhaslach . In: Schaller, Peter (Red.): Weinort Hohenhaslach. History and stories from 1200 years of village life , City of Sachsenheim, 2000 ISBN 3-933486-16-5 .
- Ruthardt Oehme: Eberhard David Hauber (1695-1765) , Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1976 ISBN 3-17-002774-3 .
- Ruthardt Oehme: Hauber, Eberhard David. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 69 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Ernst Kelchner : Hauber, Eberhard David . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 36 f.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hauber, Eberhard David |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Demostratus II. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theologian and map historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 27, 1695 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hohenhaslach |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 15, 1765 |
| Place of death | Copenhagen |