Gotthilf Friedemann Löber

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Gotthilf Friedemann Löber (born October 22, 1722 in Ronneburg , † August 22, 1799 in Altenburg ) was a German Protestant clergyman.

Life

Gotthilf Friedemann Löber was the son of Christian Löber (born January 22, 1683 in Naschhausen ; † December 26, 1747 in Altenburg), superintendent in Ronneburg and later general superintendent in Altenburg, and his wife Dorothee Sophie (* 1697; † March 8, 1771 ), Daughter of the adjunct Jacob Abraham Börner in Ronneburg. His siblings were:

  • Gotthilf Christian Löber (November 30, 1715 - April 17, 1722);
  • Gottlieb Friedemann Löber (born May 3, 1718 - † November 5, 1719);
  • Gottwertha Dorothea Löber (* June 20, 1720; † 1722);
  • Traugott Christiane Dorothea Löber (born March 31, 1724 in Ronneburg; † December 15, 1788), writer, married to Gabriel Heinrich Lilien (1693–1744), lawyer and professor at the University of Erfurt ;
  • Gotthold Ernst Löber (born November 21, 1725 in Ronneburg, † December 1, 1784 in Dresden ), court councilor and personal physician in Dresden;
  • Gottlob Christian Löber (born October 18, 1727; † 1765);
  • Gottwerth Heinrich Löber (born June 2, 1729; † March 20, 1761 in Schmölln), archdeacon ;
  • Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Löber (born October 3, 1733 in Altenburg; † January 21, 1753 in Jena), theology student;
  • Christian Joseph Löber (born August 14, 1743, † December 22, 1794 in Vorsfelde ), Physicist .

Gotthilf Friedemann Löber received his first school lessons from private tutors until he attended the Altenburg grammar school with the rector Johann Gottfried Mörlin (1696–1775) and professors Weber and Schwend. In 1738 he began studying at the University of Jena and, in the first year, attended lectures by Johann Bernhard Wiedeburg (mathematics), Georg Erhard Hamberger (physics), and Christian Gottlieb Buder (history), with whom he also lived. The following year, to 1741, he devoted himself exclusively to theology and attended lectures by Johann Georg Walch , Gottlieb Stolle and lecturer Friedemann Andreas Zülich (1687-1743) as well as mastering oriental languages at Johann Gottfried Tympe and Rabbi Friedrich Albrecht Augusti , continue learned he still spoke French and acquired legal knowledge.

After defending his dissertation in 1741, as a Magister , he acquired the right to give lectures on Hebrew and Greek language teaching and to cursory reading of the Old and New Testaments. After defending further dissertations he became an adjunct of the philosophical faculty and read philosophical colleges.

In 1743 he was appointed court preacher to Altenburg and supported his father in preaching and in the ephoral business , where he was able to use his legal knowledge. In 1745 he joined the consistory as an assessor, in 1747 he became archdeacon and in 1751 canon preacher. In 1753 he was appointed consistorial councilor . In 1768 he became general superintendent for the entire Principality of Altenburg and senior court preacher .

In 1792 Duke Ernst II (Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg) appointed him to the secret consistorial councilor at the state parliament, where Gotthilf Friedemann Löber preached the sermon God in his love for peaceful order . During his tenure in Altenburg he ordained 162 clergy and was very involved in the school system.

The Altenburg hymnbook , which he revised in 1780 , also contained two songs that he had composed: Lord, your dead will live and My God and the strength of my life .

Gotthilf Friedemann Löber was married to Rosina Dorothea Friedrike (* August 1727 in Altenburg; † 8 July 1808 there), a daughter of the Altenburg doctor Johann Friedrich Heinigke (* unknown, † around 1772), since 1753; the marriage remained childless.

Fonts (selection)

literature

  • Gotthilf Friedemann Löber in Friedrich Schlichtegroll : Nekrolog on the year 1799 containing news from d. The life of strange Germans who died in this year , 10th year, 2nd volume, p. 257 f. Gotha, Perthes 1805.
  • Löber, Gotthilf Friedemann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, p. 45.
  • Gotthilf Friedemann Löber in a general magazine for preachers according to the needs of our time . Volume 9, Part 5, p. 92 f. 1794.
  • Gotthilf Friedemann Löber in The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . 2. Volume J – M, p. 341. Neustadt an der Orla 1832.
  • Johann Gotthilf Friedrich Heinigke: To the Reverend Magnifico Herr Geheimden Consistorial-Rath and General-Superintendent zu Altenburg Herr M. Gotthilf Friedemann Löber on the day of his happily experienced 50th anniversary celebration on October 10, 1793 . Altenburg 1793.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ferdinand Höckner: The parish Treben in the Altenburg district office districts of the Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg: historical representation of the monuments of all the villages, churches, clergy and school centers belonging to this parish, knight's goods, forestry, mills etc: from documents, files and other credible news . Schnuphase, 1844, p. 61 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
personal data
SURNAME Löber, Gotthilf Friedemann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Loeber, Gotthilf Friedemann; Löber, Gotthelf Friedemann; Loeberus, Gotthilfius Fridemannus; Loeber, Gothilf Fridemann; Loeber, Gothilf Fridemannus; Loeberus, Gotthilf F .; Löber, Gotthilf F.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant clergyman and educator
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1722
PLACE OF BIRTH Ronneburg
DATE OF DEATH August 22, 1799
Place of death Altenburg