Johann Michael Hermann Harras

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Johann Michael Hermann Harras (born January 12, 1762 in Hamburg , † May 3, 1833 in Salzhausen ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and educator .

Life

Harras was born in Hamburg as the son of the Hamburg merchant Johann Nikolaus Harras (1705–1779) and Katharina Rüdiger (1741–1815).

Harras attended the learned school of the Johanneum and from 1779 the academic high school in Hamburg. From 1781 he studied theology at the University of Erlangen and in 1782 went to the University of Leipzig . Here he completed his studies in 1784, returned to Hamburg and was accepted as a candidate for the Hamburg Ministry . At first he worked as a private teacher in Hamburg, was elected preacher in Uelzen on February 9, 1791 and sent to Salzhausen by the consistory in Hanover in 1806 . Here he managed the office of preacher at the St. John's Church until the end of his life in 1833 .

family

Harras married Anna Clarissa Misler (* 1765) in 1793, the youngest daughter of the Hamburg senior secretary Johann Gottfried Misler (1720–1789) from his marriage to Maria Schramm (1734–1777).

Works (selection)

  • Speech given to my rural community on the day of the Feast of Peace, the seventh Sunday after Trinity, 1814 . 1814 ( online at Google Books).
  • Textbook of the Christian religion for higher education . Hahn, Hannover 1817 ( online at Google Books).
  • Leerboek van den christelijken godsdienst voor het hooger onderwijs . W. van Boekeren, Groningen 1823 ( digitized from Google Books - translation from German).
  • Outline of Christian religious teaching. According to the textbook of the Christian religion for higher education . Hahn, Hannover 1819 ( online at Google Books).

literature

  • Johann Michael Herrmann Harras . In: New Nekrolog der Deutschen 1833 . 11th year, 1st part. Bernh. Ms. Voigt, Weimar 1835, p. 343–344 ( digitized from Google Books).
  • Hans Schröder : Lexicon of the Hamburg writers up to the present . tape 3 , no. 1447 . Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg 1857 ( facsimile on the pages of the Hamburg State and University Library).
  • Bernhard Koerner (ed.): German gender book . tape 27 . Starke, Görlitz 1914, p. 119 (also Hamburg gender book. Volume 5. Starke, Görlitz 1914.).
personal data
SURNAME Harras, Johann Michael Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Harras, Johann Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1762
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 1833
Place of death Salzhausen