Thomas Hippius
Thomas Hippius (born August 21 . Jul / 1. September 1762 greg. In Tallinn , † October 13 jul. / 25. October 1819 greg. In Nissi ) was a Baltic German pastor .
life and work
Thomas Hippius was born as the son of the businessman Jacob Johann Hippius (1738-1806) and his wife Helene Sophia Richmann (1742-1821) in the Estonian capital Reval (Tallinn).
He attended the "Imperial City High School" founded in 1631, today's Gustav Adolf High School , in Tallinn. From 1782 he studied Protestant theology and camera studies at the University of Jena . In February 1786, he was named pastor ordained . From 1786 until his death in 1819, Thomas Hippius was pastor of the parish in Nissi, Estonia .
In addition to his work as a pastor, Hippius was heavily involved in economic and agricultural issues. Among other things, he published his best-known work in 1798, a two-part handbook for the improvement of agriculture in the sense of the Enlightenment under the title Wishes and Suggestions with the intention of abolishing fallow land and introducing the exchange economy with special consideration for the economies of Ehst, Lief and Kurland .
family
Thomas Hippius was with Marie Elisabeth Hippius, geb. Lindfors (1761–1799) married. The Baltic German painter and lithographer Gustav Adolf Hippius (1792–1856) is a son of the couple. His son is the architect Otto Pius Hippius (1826–1883).
Awards
- Preacher's Cross for 1812 (1818)
Works
- Wishes and suggestions with the intention of abolishing the fallow land and introducing the exchange economy with special consideration for the economies of Ehst, Lief and Courland, as well as announcing the most reliable means to lift the destructive effects of the rock worm, by Thomas Hippius Preacher zu Nissi in the western district of the Duchy of Harry Estonia. At the expense of the author. Reval 1798. Commissioned by PG Bornwasser, art and booksellers in Reval
literature
- Hugo Richard Paucker : Ehstland's clergy in orderly time and order. Lindfors Erben, Reval 1849 ( digitized version ), p. 99
- Johann Friedrich von Recke : General encyclopedia of writers and scholars of the provinces of Livonia, Esthland and Courland . Volume 2: G-K. 1829, urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb00000341-6 , p. 314
Individual evidence
- ↑ Paucker (lit.)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hippius, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Baltic pastor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 1, 1762 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tallinn |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 25, 1819 |
| Place of death | Nissi |