Georg Gotthilf Evers

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Title page Luther biography of Georg Gottlieb Evers (Volume 4), 1886

Georg Gotthilf Evers (born August 26, 1837 in Mengershausen , † July 24, 1916 in Innsbruck ) was a Lutheran pastor who converted to the Catholic Church and then worked as a writer.

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He was born as the son of Karl Ludwig Christian Daniel Evers, Lutheran pastor and later superintendent in Gehrden near Hanover .

Georg Gotthilf Evers attended grammar schools in Göttingen and Celle , then, at his father's request, he studied theology at the University of Erlangen , although he had a strong natural science inclination. Initially a private tutor, he became rector of the collegiate school in Wunstorf in 1862 , pastor collaborator in Schladen in 1866 , pastor in Steigerthal near Nordhausen in 1868 and pastor in Urbach in 1873 .

Inspired by the writings of the conservative Lutheran theologian and literary historian August Vilmar , Evers began to deal intensively with church and Reformation history. After many years of study he decided in 1880 to give up his pastoral office and convert to the Catholic Church in the same year.

After the change of denomination, Georg Gotthilf Evers moved to Austria-Hungary . His hope of being ordained a Catholic priest, however, was not fulfilled. He now mainly devoted himself to writing, but also increasingly pursued his botanical hobby, which he had already pursued as a pastor on the side. Evers lived for a long time in Trento , then in Barcola near Trieste, in Eppan / South Tyrol and since 1904 in Trieste . In 1883 he published his conversion work “Catholic or Protestant? Or: How was it possible that an Orthodox Lutheran pastor could go to Rome ” , 1889 the autobiographical book “ Light and Shadow: Little Pictures from the Memories of a Lutheran School Rector and Pastor ” . The main work, the fruit of his studies in the history of the Reformation, was the six-volume Luther biography “ Martin Luther . Life and character, drawn by himself in his own writings and correspondence ” , published by the Mainz publishing house Franz Kirchheim. In 1896 he published the botanical script: "Contributions to the flora of Trentino". His botanical author abbreviation is " Evers ".

Georg Gotthilf Evers died in Innsbruck in 1916.

The pedagogue and author Matthias Evers (1845–1906) was his younger brother and stepfather of the writer Wilhelm Hegeler (1870–1943).

literature

  • Klaus-Jörg Barthel: The Urbach priest and botanist Georg Gotthilf Evers (1837 to 1916) and his conversion to the Catholic Church , in: Contributions to the history of the city and district of Nordhausen , Volume 32, 2007 (find reference)
  • Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present , Volume 2, 6th edition, Leipzig, 1913, p. 172, (digital view)
  • Klaus-Jörg Barthel: The botanists of the Kyffhäuser area: A contribution to the history of floristic research in North Thuringia and Southwest Saxony-Anhalt , Verlag Weissdorn, 2005, p. 106 u. 107, ISBN 3936055068 ; (Cutout scan 1) , (Cutout scan 2)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ data page for the book
  2. ↑ data page for the book
  3. ^ Articles on the flora of Trentino in PDF format
  4. ↑ Works by and about information on  in the German Digital Library
  5. ^ Wilhelm Hegeler in the German biography
personal data
SURNAME Evers, Georg Gotthilf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Evers, Georg G.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lutheran clergyman, convert to Catholicism, book author, botanist
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Mengershausen
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 1916
Place of death innsbruck