Johann Thomas Ludwig Wehrs
Johann Thomas Ludwig Wehrs (born July 18, 1751 in Göttingen , † January 26, 1811 in Isernhagen ) was a German theologian who belonged to the Hainbund in Göttingen.
Life
Wehrs, son of a civil servant, studied Protestant theology at his birthplace from 1769 to 1775. He had acquired knowledge of French, English and Italian, which recommended him to membership in the Hainbund founded in Göttingen in 1772 . Only one of his poems was published in the Göttingen Musenalmanach in 1777. The poet Ludwig Hölty died in his arms in Hanover in 1776 when Wehrs was tutor there from 1775 to 1779. In 1780 he became pastor at St. Nikolai in Kirchhorst near Hanover, and in 1788 in Isernhagen .
The lawyer Georg Friedrich Wehrs was his brother. His sister Dorothea Wehrs († June 18, 1808) married the legal scholar Georg August Spangenberg (lawyer) , she also wrote as a poet for the Hainbund, sometimes under the pseudonym Aemilia .
literature
- Moritz Heyne : Announcements on the prehistory of the Lodge Augusta to the golden circle ... Göttingen 1896, p. 17.
- Karl Goedeke , Edmund Goetze: Outline of the history of German poetry from the sources. 3. Edition. Ehlermann, Leipzig 1916, Vol. 4, Section 1. p. 1050 .
- Alfred Kelletat: The Göttingen Grove . Reclam, Stuttgart 1967, p. 396.
- Max Mendheim : Wehrs, Johann Thomas Ludwig . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 41, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, p. 440 f.
- Walter Schachner: The generation problem in intellectual history . Giessen 1937, p. 49.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Wehrs, Johann Thomas Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theologian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 18, 1751 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Goettingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 26, 1811 |
| Place of death | Isernhagen |