Johann Samuel Huber

Johann Samuel Huber (born December 8, 1778 in Mahlberg as Johann Nepomuk Huber ; † January 30, 1858 in Moscow ) was a German Protestant theologian. From 1834 until his death he served as the first general superintendent of the Moscow Consistorial District of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Russia .

Life

Huber, the son of a cooper , was supposed to join a Franciscan order , but converted to Lutheranism and from 1805 studied Protestant theology at the University of Halle . After he was ordained in Basel in 1807 , he became pastor of a Reformed congregation in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt that same year . In 1820 he became provost in Messer ( Ust-Solicha ), also in the area of the Volga Germans. From there he was appointed consistorial assessor at the consistory in Saratov in 1823 (thanks to the support of Ignaz Aurelius Feßler, a friend of his ) . Promoted to the consistorial council in 1833, he took over the general superintendent's office as successor to Feßler the following year, the seat of which has now been moved from Saratov to Moscow. Huber was thus at the same time spiritual vice-president of the Moscow Provizial Konsistorium, which was responsible for the evangelical church system in 18 governorates in the eastern part of Russia, including the areas on the Volga, the Caucasus and Siberia.

family

In 1808 Huber married Johanna Luise Wigand (1788–1868), a daughter of the head of the Moravian Colony Sarepta Johann Wigand. One of his sons was the poet Eduard Huber (also Guber , 1814–1847). Alexander Andrejewitsch Guber and Boris Andrejewitsch Guber were his great-grandchildren.

literature

Fridolin Schoultz: memories of three celebrations. Prince Sergei Michailowitsch Golizin, Superintendent General Johann Huber. Leipzig 1857, pp. 19-36.
Erik Amburger : The pastors of the Protestant churches in Russia from the end of the 16th century to 1937. A biographical lexicon. Martin Luther Verlag, Erlangen 1998, p. 361.

Web links

Entry in the Erik Amburger database
Entry in The Center for Volga German Studies at Concordia University
Entry in the Encyclopedia of Russian Germans , accessed on March 19, 2019 (Russian)

Individual evidence

↑ Steven Grau: Pastors Who Served Nieder-Monjou , PDF file, accessed March 19, 2019.
↑ Robert Korn: The Volga Germans' first literary hopefuls: Eduard Huber, Constantin Glitsch, Friedrich Fiedler , pp. 8-10 (PDF file, accessed on March 19, 2019).

personal data
SURNAME	Huber, Johann Samuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Huber, Johann Nepomuk (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Protestant theologian and general superintendent
DATE OF BIRTH	December 8, 1778
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mahlberg
DATE OF DEATH	January 30, 1858
Place of death	Moscow

[1] Steven Grau: Pastors Who Served Nieder-Monjou , PDF file, accessed March 19, 2019.

[2] Robert Korn: The Volga Germans' first literary hopefuls: Eduard Huber, Constantin Glitsch, Friedrich Fiedler , pp. 8-10 (PDF file, accessed on March 19, 2019).