Samuel Baur
Samuel Baur (born January 31, 1768 in Ulm , † May 25, 1832 in Göttingen near Ulm) was a German Evangelical Lutheran pastor and writer .
Life
Coming from a modest family, Baur was still able to attend grammar school. Then he studied from 1791, first in Jena and later in Tubingen theology . Already in his student years he devoted himself to the way historical and literary themes, which he finally until his death continued.
He gave his first sermons in Ulm, then became pastor in Burtenbach in 1794 , came to Göttingen in 1800, and finally in 1811 took over the position of dean in the Alpeck regional office .
From his marriage to Judith Christine Gerhard (1763–1824), two sons and three daughters survived him.
Baur published around 150 volumes of homiletic , pedagogical , historical and biographical content, not all of which is his own work, but rather came from translations or copies and amalgamations.
Works
- anonymous: Characteristics of the educational writers in Germany. A handbook for educators . Johann Benjamin Fleischer, Leipzig 1790, digitized in the SLUB ; MDZ reader
- Characteristics of the educational writers in Germany. A handbook for educators . Detlev Auvermann, Glashütten i. Ts. 1974.
- Love. What it is and should be. Observations, teachings and warnings, for young men and girls who want to enter into marriage with deliberation. As the 2nd part of the characteristics of the woman's room . Gotha 1790
- Germany's women writers. A characteristic sketch. Ulm 1790
- New historical hand dictionary. 1794 ff.
- Stories from great and rare people of our age. 2 volumes, 1798
- Interesting life paintings of the most memorable people of the eighteenth century. 7 volumes, Leipzig 1803-1821
- Gallery of historical paintings from the eighteenth century. 6 volumes, Hof 1804–1806
- Gallery of the most famous people of the 18th century. 1805
- New historical-biographical-literary handbook: From the creation of the world to the end of the eighteenth century. Containing the life, character and merits of the greatest and most memorable people of all times, countries and classes . 7 volumes, Ulm 1807-1816
- Painting of the strangest revolutions, revolts, conspiracies, important changes of state and war scenes, also other interesting appearances from the history of the most famous nations . 10 volumes, Ulm 1810-1818 (Volume 7-10 also under the title: Entertaining narrative of strange revolutions and revolts, conspiracies and plots, battles and sieges )
- Small historical-literary concise dictionary on all memorable people from the beginning of the world. 4 volumes, 1813-1816
- General historical-biographical-literary concise dictionary of all remarkable people who died in the first decade of the nineteenth century. 2 volumes, Stettin, Ulm 1816
- Religious contemplations and prayers in the morning and evening. 1825
- A Practical Guide to All Pulpit and Altar Business, Volumes 1-4, 1829
Baur also translated a great deal from French and wrote numerous biographical articles on the General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts by Johann Samuelansch and Johann Gottfried Gruber .
literature
- Frank Raberg : Biographical Lexicon for Ulm and Neu-Ulm 1802-2009 . Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft im Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-7995-8040-3 , p. 31-32 .
- Johann Jacob Gradmann : The learned Swabia or Lexicon of the Swabian writers who are now living. Self-published, Ravensburg 1802, pp. 23–26 and 823
- Georg Christoph Hamberger , Johann Georg Meusel : The learned Teutschland. 5th edition, Volume 1, Meyer, Lemgo 1796, pp. 175-176 ; Volume 9, 1801, pp. 62-63 ; Volume 11, 1805, pp. 49-50 ; Volume 13, 1808, pp. 72-73 ; Volume 17, 1820, pp. 99-100 ; Volume 21,1, 1829, pp. 147-149
- Ernst Kelchner : Baur, Samuel . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 180 f.
- Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus (eds.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 1, Saur, Munich [et al.] 1995
- New necrology of the Germans. 10th year: 1832. Volume 1, Voigt, Ilmenau 1834, pp. 428–431
- Albrecht Weyermann : News from scholars, artists and other strange people from Ulm. Wagner, Ulm 1798, pp. 49-51
Web links
- Samuel Baur on CERL Thesaurus
- Literature by and about Samuel Baur in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Samuel Baur in the German Digital Library
- Works by Samuel Baur in the MDZ
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Baur, Samuel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Protestant pastor and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 31, 1768 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ulm |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 25, 1832 |
| Place of death | Göttingen near Ulm |