Elias Stöber

Elias Stöber (born September 19, 1719 in Strasbourg ; † May 9, 1778 ibid) was a Protestant theologian of the 18th century .

Life

His father was a pastor in Bischheim , he died in 1725. Elias had an older brother Johann Daniel, who became a notary. Upon completion of the Protestant school at the age of 14, he attended the University of Strasbourg and devoted himself to philological initially, later theological studies. In 1737 he obtained his master's degree . In 1740 he went on a long educational trip that took him to Gießen, Marburg, Kassel, Hanover, Helmstedt, Magdeburg, Berlin, Wittenberg, Jena, Leipzig and Halle. He attended lectures at the universities there, including by Christian Wolff and Siegmund Jakob Baumgarten . 1744 he was in Strasbourg ordained and worked as a preacher at the St. Peter's Church . He made further scientific trips to Paris, England (where he visited the Bodleian Library , among others ), Basel, Zurich, Holland and north-western Germany. He got to know Johann Jakob Breitinger , Johann Jakob Bodmer , Salomon Gessner and Johann Matthias Gesner , among others . From 1763 to 1766 he was a teacher of Greek at the grammar school in Strasbourg, in 1768 he received an extraordinary professorship in theology at the university. He described the young Johann Wolfgang Goethe , who was a student in Strasbourg from 1770 to 1771, as an "over-witted half-scholar and ... insane despiser of religion".

Stöber remained unmarried. A picture of him in the Strasbourg City Library was destroyed by fire in August 1870.

Works

His scientific works include an edition of the Astronomicon by Marcus Manilius , based on Richard Bentley's text , which appeared in 1767. He also wrote the prayer book The Penitent and God Pardoned Sinner , which was first published in 1755 and further editions in 1768 and 1783.

• Nieupoorti Antiquitates Romanae, seu rituum qui olim apud Romanos obtinuerunt, succincta explicado. Figuras et Demsteri Kalendarium Romanum adiecit. Strasbourg 1738
• Oratio de sacris veterum Christianorum arcanis. Strasbourg 1743
• Everardi Feithii antiquitatum Homericarum libri IV; editio nova, notis et indd. aucta, atque figures illustrata. Strasbourg 1744
• Diss. De studio doctoral plan perfectionem aliorum. Strasbourg 1744
• M. Manilii Astronomicon, ex recensione Richardi Bentleii, cum selectis variorum ас propriis notis; praefatio subiuncta, varia de Manilio iudicia et Julií Pontederae Epistola de Manilii Astronomia et anno coelesti etc. Strasbourg 1767
• The penitential sinner pardoned by God; or Book of Communion. Strasbourg 1768, 1784
• Diss. De praecellenti dignitate ministerii evangelici prae Leuitico ad 2 Cor. 3, 4-11. Strasbourg 1771
• Diss. VII. De sacrorum exemplorum imitatione cautius instituenda. Strasbourg 1771–1775

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Karl Richter u. a .: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von: All works based on the epochs of his work. Volume 1.2. Btb, Munich 1998ff., P. 902

literature

• Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800 . Gerhard Fleischer d. J., Leipzig 1813, Vol. 13, pp. 412-413, ( 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. 392, ( [1] )
• Friedrich Koldewey:  Stöber, Elias . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 36, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, pp. 272-274.