Urban Gottfried Siber

Urban Gottfried Siber (also: Sieber ; * December 12, 1669 in Schandau ; † June 15, 1741 in Leipzig ) was a German Protestant theologian.

Life

The son of the pastor Mag. Justus Sieber († 1695) and his wife Catharina Zinck came from a large family. Initially he was trained by private teachers and then at the age of thirteen he joined the electoral state school St. Afra in Meißen , where Johann Georg Wilke was the rector of the institution. In 1688 he moved to the University of Wittenberg , where he attended the lectures of Konrad Samuel Schurzfleisch , Christian Donati , Christian Röhrensee , Michael Walther the Younger , Caspar Löscher , Johann Deutschmann , Johann Georg Neumann and Philipp Ludwig Hanneken for three years .

In 1691 he continued his training in Hamburg with Esdras Edzardus , at the University of Kiel with Christian Kortholt , Christoph Franck , M. Opitz, Johann Burchard May and Heinrich Muhlius and then moved to Copenhagen , where he took on a position as court master. 1695 returned to his Saxon homeland, acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy in Wittenberg on April 22, 1696 and became rector in Schneeberg in 1698 . In 1703 he became a deacon in Schneeberg and was promoted to archdeacon there in 1708. In 1711 he moved to the St. Thomas Church in Leipzig as a deacon and Wednesday preacher, where he became Vespers preacher in 1714, archdeacon in 1730 and pastor there in 1739. In addition to his ecclesiastical duties he assumed in 1715 in Leipzig the newly created professorship of "Church antiquities" , was in 1714 licentiate in theology and on September 23, 1734 Doctor of theology.

Siber died unmarried.

Works

De Anancaeo ad Plauti Rudent. Act. II, Scen. II Moly hermetis herbam ... 1699
De Statua Memnonis falso credita ad Tacit. Annal. lib. II, c. 61. 1699
De Ducenariis. 1698
De vicissitudinibus libertatis et servitutis Britannicae. 1698
De laude civitatis et consulum Schneebergensium. 1702
De Jubileo Tertio Academiae Lipsiensis. 1709
De illustribus Alemannis, imprimis iis quos Magdeburgum ob nobilitatem gentis ... ad se recepit atque diffudit. Leipzig 1710
Historia Godeschalcorum. 1712
De templorum antiquitatibus. Wittenberg 1696
Templorum condendorum ac dedicandorum ritus. 1716
Canes e templis exterminandum juxta leges ecclesiasticas. Leipzig 1712
De velo virginum sacrum. 1708
De matrimonio iterate. 1712
De Albatis. 1713
De antiquitate doctoratus theologici. 1734
Enchiridion Sixti II., Pontificis et Martyris ut Christianum saec. III.
Monumentum. 1725
Telesphori, pontificis Romani vita ab erroribus purgat. 1714
De B. Chrysostomo.
De Caesareae Palaestinae Episcopis. 1734
S. Spyridionis ep. Trinithuntini vitam eiusque in Turcas a Corcyrensi obsidione profligato fortitudinem examinat. 1718
De sanctis columnaribus. 1714
Historia melodorum ecclesiae Librisque Liturgicis. 1714
Martyrologium Ecclesiae Graecae metricum ex Menaeis, Codice Chrifletiano, Actisque Sanctorum primum collectum, interpretatum et illusatrtum. 1727
De Gaza Palaestinae oppido. 1715
De σκληροκαρδἰᾳ s. de duritia mentis.
De velo virginum sacrarum.
Qualis imperantibus expediat uxor. 1712

literature

Heinrich Döring : The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Verlag Johann Karl Gottfried Wagner, Neustadt an der Orla, 1835, Vol. 4. ( Online )
Michael Ranfft : Life and writings of all Chur-Saxon scholars. Leipzig 1742. Part II., Pp. 1203–1211,
Sieber, Siber, Urban Gottfried. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 37, Leipzig 1743, column 1030-1038.
Gabriel Wilhelm Götten : The now living, learned Europe. Verlag Ludolf Schröder, Braunschweig and Hildesheim, 1736, ( online )
Georg Müller: Siber, Urban Gottfried . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 34, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1892, p. 134 f.

Web links

Works by and about Urban Gottfried Siber in the German Digital Library

personal data
SURNAME	Siber, Urban Gottfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Sieber, Urban Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH	December 12, 1669
PLACE OF BIRTH	Schandau
DATE OF DEATH	June 15, 1741
Place of death	Leipzig