Eberhard Friedrich Hiemer
Eberhard Friedrich Hiemer (born May 24, 1682 in Gächingen , † May 5, 1727 in Stuttgart ) was a German Lutheran theologian. He was court preacher and consistorial councilor in Stuttgart and is also known for his contribution to paleontology .
Hiemer went to school in Stuttgart, Blaubeuren and Bebenhausen and studied theology in Tübingen with a master's degree in 1700. From 1704 he was a repetitionist in Tübingen and in 1707 he became the parish priest in Rosenfeld . In 1714 he was a special in Wildbad and in 1716 church councilor in Bayreuth . In 1718 he became court preacher and consistorial councilor in Stuttgart. In 1720 he received his doctorate as Dr. theol. and in 1725 he became a part-time prelate of Hirsau .
He is known as the author of the Württemberg confirmation booklet (introduced in 1722). In addition to theological writings, he dealt with natural history, numismatics and other things.
On January 25, 1725 he was named Demostratus I member ( registration number 374 ) of the Academia Naturae Curiosorum .
In 1724 he published a book about the Swabian head of Medusa . It was a slate of fossilized giant sea lilies ( Seirocrinus subangularis ) found near Ohmden , which he correctly interpreted as the remains of animals (and compared with living representatives from the Arctic) and not, as at that time, often as a game of nature . As was customary at the time, he viewed them as victims of the flood that washed them from the Arctic to Württemberg.
He is the great-grandson of the Tübingen theology professor and abbot of Anhausen Johann Heinrich Hiemer (1573–1621).
Fonts
- Caput medusae, utpote novum diluvii universalis monumentum detecto in agro Würtembergico. Stuttgart, 1724, archives
literature
- Julius August Wagenmann: Hiemer, Eberhard Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 388 f.
Individual evidence
- ^ Member entry by Eberhard Friedrich Hiemer at the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina , accessed on March 21, 2016.
- ↑ Giant Sea Lily Fossil of the Year, scinexx 2014
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| SURNAME | Hiemer, Eberhard Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Demostratus I. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Lutheran theologian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 24, 1682 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gächingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 5, 1727 |
| Place of death | Stuttgart |