Johann Friedrich LeBret

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Portrait of Johann Friedrich LeBret, painting by an anonymous master from the holdings of the Tübingen Professorengalerie

Johann Friedrich LeBret (also Lebret, Le Bret) (born November 19, 1732 in Untertürkheim ; † April 6, 1807 in Tübingen ) was a theologian, historian, professor at the High Charles School and Chancellor of the University of Tübingen , Abbot of Lorch and provost of the collegiate church St. Georg in Tübingen.

Life

Johann Friedrich LeBret was born in Untertürkheim as the son of the ducal cellar master and bailiff Nikolaus David Lebret. He went to school in neighboring Cannstatt , where his mother widowed a bathing host named Stierlin.

LeBret studied theology in Tübingen as a scholarship holder of the Evangelical Monastery .

From 1757 to 1761 he was tutor and preacher for Evangelical Lutheran merchant families in Venice . In 1761/1762 he went on a long study trip through Italy. After his return to Württemberg he was a repetitionist in Tübingen and vicar in Stuttgart . In 1763 he became a professor at the Stuttgart grammar school. In the same year he married Karoline Augusta Bühler and had eleven children with her. His daughter Elise was loved by Friedrich Hölderlin in Tübingen.

In 1767 he was appointed government and consistorial librarian , 1773 professor at the Hohen Karlsschule in Stuttgart, 1779 professor for political science at the military academy of the Hohen Karlsschule, senior librarian for the Duchy of Württemberg and consistorial councilor , 1782 chancellor of the Hohen Karlsschule. He accompanied Duke Karl Eugen von Württemberg on trips to Italy (1775) and through France, England and the Netherlands (1779).

In 1786 he moved to Tübingen as professor of theology, prelate and provost of St. Georgenkirche and became chancellor of the University of Tübingen . As such, he was the penultimate titular abbot of the Lorch Monastery . He died in Tübingen in 1807.

Scientific work

As a historian, LeBret devoted himself primarily to Italian history. His main works are the State History of the Republic of Venice (4 volumes) and the History of Italy (9 volumes) published in 1769 . However, the state history of the Republic of Venice was hardly received in Italy. Giovanni Davide Weber noted this in 1826 in his Epistola ... ad Emmanuele Antonio Cigogna ... , in which he praised the historical impartiality of the author, who spent a long time as a diplomat in Venice, but regretted that the work was' hardly known in Venice '.

His history of Italy , he expanded for those of Franz Dominic Häberlin entitled General World History by a company of scholars in Teutschland and angels Country ausgefertiget issued at, Johann Jakob Gebauer published in Halle new edition of of his father Johann Justinus Gebauer laid general world history , for LeBret wrote volumes 21 to 27 of the New History Department (= Middle Ages and Modern Times). These seven extensive volumes deal with the history of Italy from the early Middle Ages ( conquest of Italy by the Ostrogoths ) to the 1780s and appeared from 1787 to 1790. The Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung praised the "constant use of the main sources, which was carefully accompanied by criticism".

He also translated numerous historical and theological works from Latin, Italian and Portuguese into German, often with revisions and additions.

Fonts (selection)

  • Pragmatic history of the so called bull In Coena Domini and its terrible consequences for the state and the church, for the assessment of all disputes of our century with the Roman court . Leipzig and Frankfurt am Main 1769–1770.
    • Vol. 1: The history of the principles of this bull (1769)
    • Vol. 2: The story before the genesis of this bull (1769)
    • Vol. 3: The story before the continuation of this bull (1770)
    • Vol. 4: The story of the latest action of the bull and the latter contradictions against it (1770)
  • Magazine for the use of state and church history, especially the constitutional law of Catholic rulers with regard to their clergy , 10 volumes. Stettin and Ulm 1771–1788.
    • Volume 4, Frankfurt and Leipzig 1774 ( e-copy ).
    • Volume 7, Frankfurt and Leipzig 1780 ( e-copy ).
    • Volume 8, Ulm 1785 ( e-copy ).
    • Volume 10, Ulm 1788 ( e-copy ).
  • State history of the Republic of Venice, from its origins to our times, in which the text of Abbot L'Augier was the basis, but its errors were corrected, the events were presented in a more definite and genuine way, and at the same time arranged according to a correct chronological order new additions, from the spirit of the Venetian laws, and secular and ecclesiastical affairs, from the internal state constitution, its systematic changes and the development of the aristocratic government from one century to another , 4 parts in 3 volumes, Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, Riga and Leipzig 1769–1777.
    • Volume 1, Leipzig and Riga 1769 ( e-copy ).
    • Volume 2, Part I, Riga 1773 ( e-copy ); Part II, Riga 1775 ( e-copy )
    • Volume 3, with indexes of all three volumes, Riga 1777 ( E-copy ).
  • published anonymously : collection of the strangest writings concerning the abolition of the Jesuit order . 1773-1774.
    • Vol. 1: The Bulls of the Repeal (1773)
    • Vol. 2: The story to explain the repeal bull of the Jesuits , part I.
    • Vol. 3: The story explaining the repeal bull of the Jesuits , Part II (1774)
    • Vol. 4: The consequences of the repeal and the writings that appeared because of it (1774)
  • History of Italy and all the ancient and modern states founded there , 9 volumes. Johann Jakob Gebauer, Halle 1778–1787.
    • Volume 1, Hall 1778 ( e-copy ).
    • Volume 3, Hall 1780 ( e-copy ).
    • Volume 4, hall 1781
    • Volume 5, hall 1778
    • Volume 8, Hall 1786 ( e-copy ).
    • Volume 9, Hall 1787 ( e-copy ).
  • Lectures on statistics. Italian states . Johann Benedict Mezler, Stuttgart 1783–1785.
    • Vol. 1: Venice (1783)
    • Vol. 2: Rome (1785)
  • General world history prepared by a society of scholars in Germany and Engelland , New History , Vol. 21-27. Johann Jakob Gebauer, Halle 1787–1790.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b c d Lebret (Johann Friedrich) . In: Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexicon, continuation and additions , Volume 3: Ka - Lu . 1810, col. 1459-1463.
  2. ^ Giovanni Davide Weber: Epistola di Giovanni Davide Weber ad Emmanuele Antonio Cigogna intorno alle Colonne Akritane e loro monogrammi esistenti dinanzi la Capella di San Giovani della Chiesa di S. Marco , Giuseppe Orlandelli, Venice 1826, p. 5.
  3. ↑ Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung, Jg. 1788, Numero 220, Sp. 689–693. See also the further review in the 1789 edition of the Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung, Numero 332, Col. 217–221.

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personal data
SURNAME LeBret, Johann Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Le Bret; Lebret
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1732
PLACE OF BIRTH Untertürkheim
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1807
Place of death Tübingen