Johann Engelhard Steuber

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Johann Engelhard Steuber (born March 16, 1693 in Marburg , † December 6, 1747 in Rinteln ) was a German Lutheran theologian.

Life

The son of the deacon Johann Heinrich Steuber (1660–1724) and his wife Juliane Eugenie, the daughter of the Count's Erbisbach privy councilor and senior magistrate Friedrich Adolph von Pfreund, had received the first lessons from private tutors and then supplemented his education at the pedagogy. On May 27, 1707 he began studying at the University of Marburg . In the field of theology, Philipp Kasimir Schlosser (1658-1712) and Christoph Ludwig Schwarzenau were his main teachers there. In Latin and Greek, as well as in the oriental languages, church history and antiquity , he had attended the lectures of Georg Otho (1634–1713), Johann Heinrich Hottinger (1681–1750) and Johann Joachim Schröder . He had also attended lectures on individual books from the Old Testament , especially Isaiah , while a learned Jew was explaining the Talmud to him .

Soon he had made good progress in the Hebrew language, so that he was able to teach in this language as early as 1709. But he had also practiced preaching since 1712. In 1716 he went to the University of Jena , where Johann Franz Buddeus , Johann Reinhard Rus (1679–1738) and Johann Andreas Danz were his theological teachers. In the following year he continued his studies at the University of Leipzig , where he attended Adam Rechenberg , Johann Georg Abicht and Johann Georg Walch's lectures and then went to the University of Halle to meet August Hermann Francke , Joachim Lange and Johann Heinrich Michaelis . After a short stay in Jena, Steuber returned to Marburg. His sermons and his lectures on the Hebrew language and on Jewish antiquity were very well received there.

In 1721 he followed a call to the University of Rinteln as an associate professor of Jewish antiquities and philology. In the same year on June 12, he was in Rinteln licentiate of theology, doctorate on July 18 for a doctor of theology and was on December 13, ordinary professor of philosophy and adjunct professor of theology. He turned down a call to Osnabrück as pastor at the St. Moritz Church there in 1726 when Landgrave Karl von Hessen granted him a significant increase in salary and offered him the prospect of promotion. In 1728, after the death of Friedrich Wilhelm Bierling (1676–1728), he became a full professor of theology and was also superintendent and assessor at the consistory . In the following year he became the first professor of theology at the university in Rinteln, which he remained until the end of his life.

family

Steuber was married to Friderike Elisabeth, daughter of the mayor and chief tax collector in Marburg Johann Goy, from June 18, 1722. The marriage resulted in three daughters and four sons. We know of these:

  • Sophie Juliane Katharine Steuber, married. with the bailiff Ernst zu Ucht
  • Katherine Luise Steuber († March 12, 1807 in Fuhlen ) married. with M. Johann Wilhelm Duncker
  • Christine Amalie Steuber († December 19, 1813) married. with the government councilor and court judge in Steinfurt Hermann Nikolai Funck (* March 15, 1733; † May 18, 1802)
  • Johann Henrich Friedrich Steuber (born June 3, 1723 † 1782 in Rinteln) became a lawyer in Rinteln
  • Justin Henrich Otto Steubner became a lawyer in Hamburg
  • Christian Georg Steubner (born March 30, 1731 in Rinteln, † November 18, 1789 in Hachmühle)
  • Johann Nikolaus Steubner (born March 19, 1735 - † March 29, 1758) became Dr. med.

Works

  • Diss. De primogenitis, qua varia Scripturae loca, seine praesertim Exod. 13, 2. explicantur, aliis quoque obscurioribus clariur lux affunditur. Marbach 1711
  • Diss. Inaug. de anno Jobelaeo secundum disciplinam Ebraeorum ad Levit. 25.8 sq. Rinteln 1721
  • Diss. Bibl. exeg. de ligatione festivorum ad cornua altaris. Rinteln 1723
  • Diss. Theol. prior de signo filii hominis ad Matth. 24, 30.Rinteln 1723
  • Program invit. ad aud. orat. inaug. FU Walteri. Rinteln 1725
  • Spicilegium observationum sacrarum ad Genes. 49, 10. de sceptro et legislatore a Juda non auferendo. Rinteln 1729
  • Adsertiones theologicae de Deo. Rinteln 1730
  • Dissertationum theologicarum prima de peccato originis, ex Ps. 51, 7. Rinteln 1731
  • Program invitat. ad orat. inaug. BL Eskuche Gr. I. Prof. Ord.Rinteln 1734
  • Progr. De improbo litterarum ebraearum et graecarum contemtu atque neglectu. Rinteln 1734
  • Progr. Quo ad orationem quum a Magistratu academico discederet, qua Karacorum natales, dogmata et fata enarrevit, invitavit. Rinteln 1735
  • Program invitat. ad orat. inaug. JH Behrens, Prof. Phil, extraord. Rinteln 1735
  • Progr. Quomodo luminaria extinguantur. Rinteln 1735
  • Progr. De Phoanice. Rinteln 1735
  • Progr. De usu rationis in rebus sacris. Rinteln 1735
  • Progr. De ... regis nostri natali, ad locum Hosea 7, 5. Rinteln 1735
  • Commentatio hermeneutica de mutuo Psalmorum nexu. Rinteln 1736
  • Commentatio epistolica ad oratores sacros in Comitatu Hasso-Scbaumburgico, qua locum, Genes. 1, 2. contra interpretem Wertheimensem spiritui sancto restituit et vindicate et colloquium universarium cui dict. XII Calend. Jul. Denuntiat. Rinteln 1737
  • Program fun. in obitum JF Bierlingii, Theol. Cult. Rinteln 1741
  • Progr. De oculis Leae. Rinteln 1741
  • Progr. Ad orationem suam de communi vinculo et individus nexu scientiae sacrae ct artis salutaris, audiendam; cum fascus academicos esset depositurus. Rinteln 1741
  • Achitophel numero illorum exemtus, qui sibi ipis laqueo gulam fregerunt, s. cogitationes exegeticae ad 2 Sam. 17, 23., quibus annuam synodum, cui dictus dies VI Id. Jun. Verbi divinus ministris in Comitatu Hasso- Schaumburgico indicit. Rinteln 1741
  • Diss. Inaug. theol. de Philosophiae Platonico. Pythagoreus fraudibus s. placitis erroneis a Paulo atque Petro 1 Tim. 1, 4. 4. 7.2 Tim. 4. 1 - 4. Tit. 1, 13. 14. 2 Petr. 1, 16. improbatis ac vitare jussis. Rinteln 1744

literature

personal data
SURNAME Steuber, Johann Engelhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1693
PLACE OF BIRTH Marburg
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1747
Place of death Rinteln