Johann Georg Olbers

Johann Georg Olbers (born September 7, 1716 in Oese, today a district of Basdahl , † December 20, 1772 in Bremen ) was a German theologian and cathedral preacher in Bremen .

biography

Olbers was the son of a pastor . In 1747 he married Anna Maria Vogt (1728–1798), the daughter of the cathedral preacher Johann Vogt . This marriage gave birth to sixteen children, nine of whom survived childhood, including the well-known doctor and astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers (1758–1840).

Olbers graduated from the Athenaeum Stade and studied theology at the University of Rostock and the University of Göttingen . He did his doctorate in Rostock. Then he worked as a tutor. In 1742 he became sub-rector of the Bremen Cathedral School . In 1747 he was ordained pastor and took over the parish of Arbergen . In 1760 he was appointed cathedral pastor at Bremen's St. Petri Cathedral , where his father-in-law and his brother Wolbrand Vogt already held office. He and his wife were buried in Bremen Cathedral.

Fonts

Olbers authored several theological writings, obituaries, and sermons. On the map series for Gogericht of Achim he participated.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See the entry of Johann Georg Olbers' matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal

literature

• Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : Olbers (Johann Georg). In: Christian Gottlieb Jöcher , Johann Christoph Adelung : General learned lexicon. Vol. 5, Heyse, Bremen 1816, Col. 1021 f.
• Thomas Begerow: Johann Georg Olbers; † 1772; Anna Marie Olbers b. Vogt; † 1798 a. a. In: Blätter der Maus , Issue 30, The Graves in the Bremen St. Petri Cathedral, Volume 18, Bremen 2005, pp. 47–58.
• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . Volume: supplementary volume . A – Z. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2008, ISBN 978-3-86108-986-5 .