Johannes Saubert the Elder

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Johannes Saubert the Elder

Johannes Saubert the Elder (born February 26, 1592 in Altdorf , † November 2, 1646 in Nuremberg ) was a Lutheran theologian and city librarian in Nuremberg. In his writings, a catalog is mentioned for the first time, which recorded the printed works, the so-called incunabula , that were created up to 1500 .

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Origin and career

Johannes Saubert, born and raised in Altdorf near Nuremberg, did an apprenticeship with a miller after the early death of his father, a carpenter. It was there that the Altdorf theologian and professor at the university there, Jakob Schopper, discovered him and made it possible for the boy, together with his own sons, to take classes at the Altdorf grammar school. Under the wing of Schoppers, Johannes Saubert graduated from Altdorf University , graduating in 1611 with a master's degree in theology and poeta laureatus . After a few more years of study in Tübingen, Gießen and Jena, Saubert was appointed a catechist in Altdorf in 1617, then a deacon and professor of theology in 1618; in the same year he married Helene Leutkirchen from Nuremberg.

Johannes Saubert the Younger was his son.

During the Thirty Years War

During the war , the horror of which he experienced in Altdorf in the early years, he worked from 1622 as a deacon of St. Aegidien in Nuremberg, then as the first preacher to St. Sebald there and as the city librarian. In this function he maintained lively contact and correspondence with scholars, people of class and royal blood. After the death of his first wife, who bore him seven children, Saubert entered into a second marriage with the widow of the Nuremberg bookseller Wagenmann, who gave him another seven children. Johannes Saubert died in Nuremberg in 1646 after a long period of suffering.

He was credited with great services to the city of Nuremberg, especially during the long years of the war. He ensured that the Sunday celebrations were strictly observed, improved the school system and took care of the reception of Protestant religious refugees, the so-called exiles , especially from Austria.

Johannes Saubert left behind a number of theological writings, as well as printed sermons, edification writings and poems in Latin and German, including a 5-part edition of Philipp Melanchthon's letters . His Historia Bibliothecae Norimbergensis from 1643 should be emphasized ; In this treatise on the history of the Nuremberg City Library , Saubert mentions a Catalogus librorum proximis ab inventione annis usque ad a. Chr. 1500 editorum , which is considered to be the first list of " incunabula " or incunabula .

Johann Saubert the Elder wrote for the first edition (1641) of the so-called “Weimar Bible Works”, also known as the Elector's Bible . Ä. brief summaries introducing the chapters of the Old and New Testaments. The texts of these summaries were then taken verbatim from the Schleswig Bible (1664) .

Fonts

  • Dyodekas emblematum sacrorum, Beautiful Spiritual Teaching and Consolation Figures. Nuremberg 1625. Reprint 1977.
  • Calendarium christianum, Almanach vnd Prognosticon, on the year / after the birth of Lord vnd Heylandes Jesu Christi / M. DC. XXVI. : Inside the golden number / the sun circle / the interest number and the Sunday letter to be found. Halbmayer, Nuremberg (1626) ( digitized copy of the copy in the Herzog August Library ).
  • Lutherus Propheta Germaniae, or Lutherus the German Prophet. Nuremberg 1632.
  • What is meant by bedencken, as explained by Christian Hoburg's booklet . Nuremberg 1646.

In art

  • 2 sheets a) Mag. Saubertus has his son by the hand and shows him the way to virtue. From Geo. Shrub [(1613-1676]). Ao. 1639.
  • b) the handwriting of Saubertus. Both sheets from his son's studbook.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : Allgemeine Gelehrten Lexikon , Leipzig 1751, 4th part, p. 163 f .; Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie , Berlin 1970 (reprint), Volume 30, pp. 414-415.
  2. ^ Auction of the collection of Christian Jacob Gottlob Eisen from Nuremberg from December 6, 1824 in Nuremberg., Bayerische StaatsBibliothek digital , p. 21, item 138
personal data
SURNAME Saubert, Johannes the Elder
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Saubert, Johannes d. Ä .; Saubertus, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lutheran theologian and city librarian in Nuremberg
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1592
PLACE OF BIRTH Altdorf
DATE OF DEATH November 2, 1646
Place of death Nuremberg