Gerhard Adam Neuhofer

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Gerhard Adam Neuhofer (1810 by A. Schön)

Gerhard Adam Neuhofer (born January 16, 1773 in Augsburg ; † December 12, 1816 there ) was a German Lutheran clergyman, professor, philologist, historian and poet.

Life

Gerhard Adam Neuhofer was born as the son of the Augsburg calico manufacturer Georg Christoph Neuhofer (1734–1796) and his wife Maria Barbara, b. Engelbrecht. From 1778 to 1785 the gifted student attended high school near St. Anna . In the years 1781 to 1784 he also received private lessons from the young deacon and later pastor of the Barfüßerkirche, Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm (1758–1811), whose well-known scientific work Entertainments from Natural History he was to continue later. From 1791 to 1795 he studied poetry, rhetoric, history, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, philosophy and theology at the University of Altdorf . Influential teachers were the Protestant theologians Johann Philipp Gabler and Georg Lorenz Bauer, as well as the polymath Wolfgang Jäger, who died shortly after Neuhofer's departure from the university in May 1795, and for whom he wrote a detailed obituary in Latin.

In 1795 he passed his theological exam in Augsburg and was first a catechist in a penitentiary, then a pestilentiarius, later an adjunct in military hospitals, before becoming a deacon at the Barfüßerkirche in 1805 and in St. Jakob from 1806. In 1807 he got a job as a high school professor of Greek, Hebrew and history at his old school. But as early as 1809 he had to resign from this position for health reasons. In 1813 he got the position as a deacon at St. Anna . In addition to his job, Neuhofer worked tirelessly as a writer; so also for Cotta's renowned Morgenblatt for educated readers .

In 1803 he married Johanna Dorothea Wasser, daughter of the pastor of St. Jakob. Only two in ten children were still alive when his wife died in November 1815. In May 1816 Neuhofer married his second wife, Rosina Barbara Sophia Degmair, daughter of the pastor of St. Anna. A few months later, on December 12, 1816, at the age of 43, he unexpectedly died of a "nervous blow". Dean Krauss gives the funeral speech, former colleagues write a longer poem that is recited at the grave. Thomas Vincent Roll's art dealer dedicates his own art paper to him: "Monument to Mr. Diakon Neuhofer" (1817). But his grave, which is listed in Ferdinand Seidel's Der Führer on the graves of those who died in Augsburg and the collection of all inscriptions on the monuments of the Protestant churchyard in Augsburg (1838), no longer exists.

Gerhard Adam Neuhofer will live on, especially in his historically informative almanacs.

Works

GA Neuhofer (1804) by Johann Walch (1757–1816)
  • Considerations on particular times and cases; an addendum to the morning u. Evening reflections on all days of the year , 2 volumes, Augsburg: Rollwagen 1810
  • Diana on the death monuments of the Greeks and Romans. An archaeological experiment (announced by the Augsburg publisher Späth for the 1797 fair, but apparently never published.)
  • Stories for pleasant and useful entertainment, Leipzig: Stagesche Buchhandlung 1805
  • Poems , 2 volumes, Leipzig: Stagesche Buchhandlung 1804
    Neuhofer's successful almanac
  • Klio and Euterpe. A paperback to the year 1804 , Augsburg: Rollwagen 1804. [Further editions up to 1809. The digital collection of the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf allows access to several editions.]
  • Morning reflections on all days of the year. First volume January to Junius, Augsburg: Rollwagen 1810
  • Morning (and evening) reflections on all days of the year by Gerhard Adam Neuhofer, deacon at St. Jakob and professor at the grammar school ; Second volume. Julius to December, Augsburg: trolley 1808
  • Paperback for history and entertainment 1798–1803 , Augsburg: Rollwagen. [Forerunner of Klio and Euterpe .]
  • Toilet present for pleasant entertainment for the woman, to the year 1806. Augsburg: Rollwagen 1806. Another edition 1808.
  • Lectures on German classics. For educated people and for use in higher educational establishments , [with Johann Gottfried Sauer] Tübingen 1810
  • Conversations from the natural history of the plant kingdom, fourth part, edited by Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm, continued by Deacon Neuhofer (from the fourth volume from page 409 to the sixth volume p. 529), Augsburg: Engelbrecht 1812-1816

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Krauss, Ludwig F., Brief message from the life of Mr. Gerhard Adam Neuhofer, well-deserved deacon at St. Anna in Augsburg, together with the funeral speech given by Dean Krauss at the grave of the Blessed , Augsburg: Rollwagen 1816
  2. ^ Wilhelm was Neuhofer's cousin. See catalog for the exhibition on the occasion of Wilhelm's 200th birthday ( memento of the original from April 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 45 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sustb-augsburg.de
  3. ^ A b Baader, Clemens Alois, Lexicon of deceased Baierischer writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Volume 2.1: A - P, Augsburg 1825, pp. 215-218
  4. Jump up ↑ Gerhardvm Adamvm Nevhofervm, Memoriae Viri Magnifici Excellentissimi Ac Doctissimi Wolfgangi Iaegeri Philosophiae Doctoris, Altorfii MDCCLXXXV
  5. ↑ There are two unpublished letters in the Cotta archive of the German Literature Archive in Marbach
  6. ↑ Helene Burger, Hermann Erhard, Hans Wiedemann, Pfarrerbuch Bayerisch-Schwaben, Neustadt 2001, p. 150
  7. ↑ Obituary in the grave of Mr. Diakonus Neuhofer, who died prematurely, by some of his earlier colleagues, Augsburg, December 15, 1816, printed by Abraham Geiger
  8. ↑ Today grave site 1 3 262 (old grave no. 60/9)
  9. ↑ See also Maria Lanckorońska u. Arthur Rümann, History of German paperbacks and almanacs from the classical-romantic period , Osnabrück 1985, p. 20
  10. ↑ Der Schwäbische Merkur of November 4, 1852, p. 1958, indicates the unbroken popularity of this title on the occasion of a new edition.
personal data
SURNAME Neuhofer, Gerhard Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran clergyman, professor, philologist, historian and poet
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1773
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1816
Place of death augsburg