Johann Gottlob Worbs

Johann Gottlob Worbs

Johann Gottlob Worbs (born May 7, 1760 in Röhrsdorf near Friedeberg am Queis , Silesia ; † November 12, 1833 in Priebus , Silesia) was a German Lutheran theologian and historian.

life and work

Worbs was born as the eldest of nine siblings of the housekeeper Gottlob Worbs (1734–1797) and Anna Rosine. Born Wangenknecht (1739–1806). He attended the school in his hometown, from 1774 the school in Niederwiesa near Greiffenberg and from 1777 the one in Hirschberg . From 1781 to 1784 he studied Protestant theology at the University of Halle and then worked for a few years as a tutor. In 1787 he became a pastor in Priebus - a task that he fulfilled until his death. In addition, he became superintendent of the Principality of Sagan in 1804 and general superintendent of Sagan and the Prussian Upper Lusatia in 1818 .

Since 1790 he was a member of the Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences , since 1819 honorary member of the Silesian Society for Patriotic Culture and later he also became a full member of the Thuringian-Saxon History Association. In 1817 he was supported by the University of Breslau Dr. phil. and in 1830 to D. theol. appointed. He was also awarded the Order of the Red Eagle 3rd class in 1831 .

Worbs was one of the earliest historians of Lusatia , especially Lower Lusatia . He also dealt with his homeland Silesia. He researched the local and state history as well as the church history and put on collections of sources . His main work is the first collection and scientific processing of Niederlausitzer sources Inventarium diplomaticum Lusatiae inferioris .

On January 21, 1795 he married Christiane Louise Eleonore Klingsporn (* around 1767; † September 6, 1832), the second-born daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Friedrich Wilhelm von Klingsporn and Kant's friend Charlotte von Knobloch. The marriage resulted in two sons and two daughters.

In 2014, a square in Przewóz (Priebus) was named after him.

Works

• When Pastor Johann Gottlieb Müller von Podrosche was called to pastor in Jenkendorf bey Niesky. Winkler, Sorau 1792
• About the federal and friendship symbols of the Orientals. Winkler, Sorau 1792; 2nd edition: Anton, Görlitz 1810.
• History of the Duchy of Sagan. F. Frommann, Züllichau 1795; Revised edition: Georg Feilhauer (revision.), Daustein, Sagan 1930.
• The memory of the Protestant religion teachers in the Priebussian circle. Ducal court book printer, Sagan 1795.
• Archive for the history of Silesia, Lusatia and partly Meissen. JW Ackermann, Sorau 1798 (only volume 1 published).
• History and description of the land of the Druze in Syria. Anton, Görlitz 1799.
• Memories from the history of the Imperial Burgraves and Counts of Dohna and the Count of Kospoth. Ducal court book printer, Sagan 1800.
• Church, preacher and school histories of the Lords of Sorau and Triebel. Winkler, Sorau 1803.
• New archive for the history of Silesia and Lusatia. Verlag der Neue Günterschen Buchhandlung, Glogau 1804; Freystadt, Züllichau 1825 (no longer published).
• History of the Protestant churches, preachers and school teachers in the Principality of Sagan. Book printing of the orphanage, Bunzlau 1809.
• History of Cottbus. In: New Lusatian Magazine . Volume 1, Görlitz 1821, pp. 1-21 , 157-194 , 353-367
• Sermon on the day of the inauguration of the new Protestant church in Priebus on November 2nd, 1823. Rauert, Sorau 1823
• The rights of the Protestant communities in Silesia to the churches and church property that were violently taken from them in the 17th century. Julien, Sorau 1825; 2nd edition: Sorau 1846.
• History of the Lords of Sorau and Triebel. Rauert, Sorau 1826; Reprint: Niederlausitzer Verlag, Guben 2008, ISBN 978-3-935881-49-4 .
• Brief overview of the religious and church history of the city of Liegnitz. In: The Marienkirche zu Liegnitz and its clergy. Self-published by Ober-Diaconus Lingke, Liegnitz 1828.
• Inventarium diplomaticum Lusatiae inferioris. Directory and essential content of the documents found so far about Nieder-Lausitz. Volume 1: From the years 873 to 1620. In commission at Traug. Gotsch, Lübben 1834 (no more published).

literature

• Friedrich Beck : Worbs, Johann Gottlob. In: Friedrich Beck and Eckart Henning (eds.): Brandenburgisches Biographisches Lexikon ( individual publication of the Brandenburg Historical Commission eV Volume 5). Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam 2002, ISBN 3-935035-39-X , p. 431.
• Woldemar Lippert :  Worbs, Johann Gottlob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 44, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, pp. 210-212.
• Bernhard Friedrich Voigt : New necrology of the Germans . Year 11, 1833, Voigt, Weimar 1835, Volume 2, pp. 754–766, No. 301 .
• Joachim Leopold Haupt: The picture of our worb . In: New Lusatian Magazine . Year 1834, Volume XII, pp. 1–10.
• Carl Gabriel Nowack: Johann Gottlob Worbs. Korn, Breslau 1834.
• August Wilhelm Auer: Dr. Johann Gottlob Worbs. Self-published, Priebus 1906.
• Rudolf Lehmann : Lower Lusatia in the days of classicism, romanticism and Biedermeier. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1958, pp. 295–332, image: panel XXII.
• Dariusz Dolański: Johann Gottlob Worbs, a historian of Silesia and Lusatia. In: Lětopis . Journal for the Sorbian language, history and culture. 1999, No. 1, ISSN  0943-2787 , pp. 34-39.

Web links

• Literature by and about Johann Gottlob Worbs in the catalog of the German National Library

Wikisource: Johann Gottlob Worbs  - Sources and full texts

• Worbs, Johann Gottlob .  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Torsten Richter: Germans and Poles remember Worbs. In: Lausitzer Rundschau . 19th May 2014