Johann Daniel Overbeck

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Johann Daniel Overbeck

Johann Daniel Overbeck (born June 23, 1715 in Rethem ; † August 3, 1802 in Lübeck ) was a Protestant theologian and rector of the Katharineum .

biography

Johann Daniel Overbeck was the son of superintendent Caspar Nicolaus Overbeck (1670–1752). He and his two brothers first attended the Michaelis School in Lüneburg . In 1731 he returned to Lübeck from the Electorate of Hanover . Since his parents could not raise the school fees for all three boys at the same time, he was already working as a tutor while at the same time visiting the Katharineum as a pupil. In 1734 he began studying theology at the University of Helmstedt , where Johann Lorenz von Mosheim hired him as a private tutor, which was used to finance his studies. In 1743 he became vice rector in Quedlinburg . In 1744 he returned to the Katharineum as sub-rector as the successor to Johann Friedrich Behrendt . The management of the city ​​library was also connected to this position . In 1753 he was promoted to vice rector under rector Johann Henrich von Seelen , who he succeeded in 1763. He held this position until his retirement in 1795.

As a person, he did not take up the changes brought about by the Enlightenment for himself and the school he ran, and the Katharineum reached a marked low point of reputation under his leadership at the end of the 18th century. This must not hide the fact that he was a very respected scientist in the tradition of his predecessor of souls. He also wrote lyrics for the evening music . The University of Kiel awarded him an honorary doctorate on his 50th anniversary in 1793 . Exhausted in strength and longing for peace and quiet , he asked for his retirement in 1795.

On October 1, 1754, he married Charlotte Chüden (* 1725, † January 7, 1802) in Lüneburg, the second daughter of court doctor Dr. Christian Friedrich Chüden. This marriage resulted in two daughters and a son, of whom only the younger daughter survived:

  • Dorothee Erneste Conradine (* 1758, died early)
  • Eleonore Wilhelmine (* 1760, married to the merchant Johann Hinrich Knauer since 1789, senior man of the Novgorod driver)
  • Johann Christian Daniel (* 1762, † 1792 after a smallpox infection )

The mayor of Lübeck, Christian Adolph Overbeck, was his nephew.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Publius Virgilius pastoral poems for the amusement of wit and to improve taste with annotations and with Latin in German verses set opposite ed. by Johann Daniel Overbeck. With a preface by Gottsched . Helmstaedt: Weygand 1750
  • Core history of the city of Flensburg. Lübeck 1752
  • Nova Bibliotheca Lubecensis (1753–1757, co-editor)
Volumes 1–5 ( digitized version)
Volumes 6–8 ( digitized version )
  • Miscellana Lubecensia (1758–1761, co-editor)
  • Commentation de vita, scriptis, meritis M. Erici Simonis Henrici a souls. Lübeck 1756
  • Treatise on the German name of Christmas. Lübeck 1757
  • German translation of the Paradoxa of Cicero. Lübeck 1760–61
  • Life, merits and writings of ... Mr. Georg Hermann Richertz Highly Deserved Pastor to St. Jakob ... on the day of the solemn burial ...: Lübeck January 19, 1767 , Lübeck 1767 digital copy of the SLUB Dresden
  • De derivanda a D. Luthero necessitudine, quae Curiae intercedit cum scholis. Lübeck 1768

Overbeck wrote various song poems for the common evening music , including:

Estate catalog

  • Johann Hermann von Melle : Bibliotheca Overbeckiana: seu catalogus librorum in theologia, philosophia, antiquitatibus ac historia ...: quos magno olim studio comparavit sibi JD Overbeckius ... nunc ... MDCCCIII publicae licitationi exponet GFJ Römhild. 1803

literature

  • (Christian Adolph Overbeck): Life of Mr. Johann Daniel Overbecks, Weyland Doctors of Theology and Rectors of the Lübeck High School. From a close relative and former student of the eternal one. Lübeck: Römhild 1803 (with list of publications, pp. 43–47)
  • Alken Bruns: Johann Daniel Overbeck. In: Lübeck résumés. Neumünster 1993, pp. 290-292. ISBN 3529027294
  • Overbeck (Johann Daniel) in: Johann Samuelansch, Johann Gottfried Gruber, Moritz Hermann Eduard Meier, Hermann Brockhaus, Johann Georg Heinrich Hassel, AG Müller, August Leskien, General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts , Volume 3, Volume 8, 1836, p 32-36
  • Uwe Meier:  Overbeck, Christian Adolph. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , pp. 720 f. ( Digitized version ). (Side entry in the article on Christian Adolph Overbeck)
  • Isabel Sellheim : The family of the painter Friedrich Overbeck (1789–1869) in genealogical overviews . In: German Family Archives . Volume 104, Neustadt an der Aisch 1989, ISBN 3-7686-5091-X , GW ISSN  0012-1266

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life (lit.), p. 41
  2. ↑ Herd: The Novgorod Riders
  3. ↑ Life (lit.), p. 47

Web links

Wikisource: Johann Daniel Overbeck  - Sources and full texts
predecessor Office successor
Johann Henrich von Seelen Rector of the Katharineum in Lübeck
1763–1795 		Friedrich Daniel Behn
personal data
SURNAME Overbeck, Johann Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Protestant theologian and rector of the Katharineum in Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1715
PLACE OF BIRTH Rethem
DATE OF DEATH August 3, 1802
Place of death Lübeck