Georg Haner

Georg Haner (born April 28, 1672 in Schäßburg , Transylvania , † December 15, 1740 in Biertan ) was a Transylvanian Lutheran theologian and church historian.

Life

After graduating from the Schäßburg mountain school , Haner studied at the University of Wittenberg on April 5, 1691 . There he had attended the lectures of Theodor Dassov , Johann Deutschmann , Konrad Samuel Schurzfleisch , and Valentin Ernst Löscher, among others , and on October 13, 1692 acquired the academic degree of a master's degree at the philosophical faculty. In Wittenberg he wrote his first work on the history of the Church in Transylvania, which is still valued today as a source work.

After he had given lectures in Wittenberg and turned down a position as field preacher, he moved back to his hometown. There he took over the post of rector of the grammar school in January 1695 , which under his leadership experienced a flourishing boom. In 1698 he took over a preaching position there and in 1701 went to Trappold as a pastor . After occupying the parish in Keisd in 1706 , in Groß-Schenk in 1708 and in Mediasch in 1713 , he became pastor of Biertan in 1736 and bishop of the Protestant regional church in Transylvania, Saxony . As a representative of Lutheran orthodoxy, he came out against pietism.

Selection of works

• Historia ecclesarum Transsilvanicarum, inde a premis populorum originibus ad haec usque tempora et fide dignissimis manuscriptis IV libris delineata auctore M. Georgio Haner. Francofurti & Lipsiae apud Joh. Christoph. Folginer. Anno 1694, 4th vol.
• Notabene majus pastoris Saxo-Transilvani et Augustanae confessioni invariatae ore et corde addicti in tres partes divisum 3 vols.

literature

• Haner, George. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 12, Leipzig 1735, column 459.
• Publication , Gruber : Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste 1828, Sect 2 T. 2 S. 159
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Haner, Georg . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 7th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1861, p. 298 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Georg Daniel Teutsch :  Haner, Mag. Georg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 507.
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  HANER, Georg. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 511-512.