Johann Samuel Hering

Johann Samuel Hering (born January 12, 1683 in Stargard in Pomerania , † March 10, 1752 in Stettin ) was a German lawyer, historian and high school professor .

Life

Johann Samuel Hering's father, Magister Matthias Hering, was a pastor at the Holy Spirit Church in Stargard , his grandfather Matthias Hering was the mayor of Neuwedell . Johann Samuel Hering initially studied at the University of Greifswald . He later moved to the University of Frankfurt (Oder) , where he received his doctorate in law in 1706 .

Hering first worked as a lawyer in Szczecin . By the Swedish King Karl XII. In 1715 he was appointed adjunct of the law faculty and the syndic of the University of Greifswald . But already in the following year 1716 he was brought back to Stettin by the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm I , where he was Professor of Law at the Academic Gymnasium until the end of his life . In the following years he became a royal Prussian hunting counselor, chamber attorney and government and court court advocate at the highest provincial judicial authority in Szczecin.

In addition to legal writings, Hering also wrote on historical topics such as the history of Szczecin .

His son August Gottlieb Ludwig Hering became court judge in Köslin and emerged as a poet of sacred songs.

Fonts (selection)

• Historical news from the two collegiate churches of St. Marien and St. Otto in Stettin. Szczecin 1725.
• Historical news from the city of Szczecin. Szczecin 1726.
• The Pomeranian Duke Erico II was disturbed by a hunt near Horst, which resulted in the violent death of four Greifswald mayors, among them the famous founder of Greifswald University, Dr. Rubenov. Stettin 1727. ( Digital version, possibly a subsequent edition in VD 18 Digital)
• Unpredictable thoughts about the question: If today's paper was made from crushed and mashed canvas rags, invented? And how long may it have been in use in Pomerania? Stettin 1736. ( digitized in the digital library Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)

literature

• Hermann Hering:  Hering, Johannes Samuel . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 114.
• Herring (Johann Samuel). In: Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Vol. 5, Gerhard Fleischer d. J., Leipzig 1805, pp. 388–392 ( digitized version )
• Eckhard Wendt: Stettiner Lebensbilder (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania . Series V, Volume 40). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-412-09404-8 , pp. 231-232.

Web links

• Literature by and about Johann Samuel Hering in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature about Johann Samuel Hering in the state bibliography MV