Samuel Luther from Geret

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Samuel Luther von Geret (born June 18, 1730 in Thorn ; † September 28, 1797 there ) was a German Protestant theologian, lawyer and politician.

Life

As the son of the pastor and Seniors of the Ministry in Thorn Christoph Heinrich Andreas Geret born (1686-1757), he attended high school in his hometown. He studied at the University of Frankfurt (Oder) from May 5, 1749 , continued his studies at the University of Göttingen and moved to the University of Wittenberg , where on April 30, 1751 he acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy. After he had obtained his permission to read at universities as a Magister legens on December 18, 1752, he was accepted on July 13, 1753 as an adjunct to the philosophical faculty of the Wittenberg University. In the same year he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

In November 1753 he became associate professor of philosophy in Wittenberg and in 1754 returned to Thorn as a high school professor . Here he became an adjunct of his father in 1755. As an ordained preacher and member of the city of Thorn, he went to the Protestant courts and cities in Germany, Holland and England to collect collections for the building of a new Protestant St. Mary's Church in Thorn. On these trips, Geret became a member of learned societies in Augsburg, Mainz, Göttingen and Jena.

After his return he resigned from the clergy, became secretary of the city of Thorn in 1759 and as such was often at the royal court in Warsaw , where he stayed from 1766 to 1776. During this time he received his doctorate in 1772 as a university curator at the University of Göttingen as a doctor of both rights , took over the position of the syndic of the city of Thorn in 1774 and was royal Prussian court and war councilor. From 1775 he was a member of the city council of Thorn, was raised to the nobility by the Polish king and was burgrave from 1782 to 1783 .

Geret wrote the Thornische historical news from 1787 to 1797 , he was the author and editor of various Thornische and Warsaw state calendars , and other small works and essays. In his time he was considered an eccentric advocate of the historical rights of his homeland West Prussia and his city. But Geret was a fair man in all areas, and his national and local patriotism made him a bitter opponent and later a lawyer for the Hohenzollerns .

Selection of works

  • Epistola gratulatoria ad Borkowskium et Gieringium Praeconsules Thorunenses de experiencia una solaque rerum magistra. Danzig 1748
  • Epistola gratulatoria ad parentem. Goettingen 1752
  • Exercitationis variorum de Arnobio Afro, eiusque theologia, iudicia exhibentis, antelogium, de non contemnenda antiquissimorum inter Christianos doctorum scientia. Wittenberg 1752
  • Christian. Gottl. Ungeri Diss. De vita Aldi Pii Manutii Romani meritisque in rem literatam, observationibus illustrata. Wittenberg 1753
  • In numisma Noricum in honorem PJ de Marperger cusum, commentaríus JW de Berger; editus a SL device. Rostock 1755
  • Thornische weekly news and advertisements, along with an appendix of learned matters. Thorn 1760–1772 Volume 12 (containing the most reliable news of the Polish Empire and dissident affairs of the time).
  • Reponse for le Memoire touchant la Douane dans la Prusse polonoise. Warsaw 1765, Thorn 1767
  • Ordinatio Uladislai IV. Ratione cousiliorum in. Conventibus Prussiae, cum annotationibus. Thorn 1766
  • Vox Pruthenorum, ad ill. Valerian. Piwnicki, Ensiser. terr. Pruss. gener. ht Nuntium terr. Pr. In Comitiis extraord. Regni. Warsaw 1767
  • Ceremonial circa praestationem iuramenti celsissimi principia Episcopi Varmiensia usitatum et observandum. Warsaw 1768
  • Handbook for Romans, Greeks and dissidents in city - castle and regional courts to the mixed court. Warsaw 1769 (Polish and German)
  • The voice penetrating from the graves of those who died two hundred and one hundred and fifty years ago, true and outlawed Prussians, for revival. and improvement to the now living Prussians who degenerated into Poland, belongs in various old castles a. Monasteries in Prussia. Mitau 1774
  • Considerations. Frankfurt and Leipzig 1774
  • Insults in respect of the city of Thorn; along with a land chart. 1775
  • The entry of Romanzof. from the campaign with victory jumps in Moscow: a poem. Warsaw 1775
  • Fragments of thoughts and history. 1st freight. Winterthur (Hamb.) 1781, (The manuscript for the 2nd freight is largely finished).
  • Letter from a Pole to a friend in Saxony about a letter from an Elbe and its introduction: concerning the current disputes in the city of Danzig. (Hamburg) 1784, 2nd letter Hamburg 1784
  • Improvements to some songs based on the Thorner hymn book, for rehearsal. Warsaw 1783
  • The now living Thorn. Frankfurt and Leipzig (Posen) 1793
  • Educational historical news from the actual, true fatherland of the city of Thorn, which has existed for centuries. Erfurt 1796

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 91.
personal data
SURNAME Geret, Samuel Luther from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Geret, Samuel Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian, lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1730
PLACE OF BIRTH Thorn
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1797
Place of death Thorn