Johann Hübner

Johann Hübner (17 March 1668 – 21 May 1731) was a German geographer and scholar, who taught by question and answer method.

Life

Johann Hübner attended school in Zittau before studying theology, poetry, rhetoric, geography and history at the University of Leipzig. In 1694 he became rector of the Gymnasium in Merseburg.[1]

With his Questions and Answers to Geography book, published in 1693, the subject of geography began to be taught in schools.

In 1704 he wrote the preface to the Reales Staats-, Zaitungs- und Conversations-Lexikon compiled by Philipp Balthasar Sinold von Schütz.[2]

In 1711 he became rector of the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums in Hamburg.[3]

His children's Bible Biblische Historien (1714) was designed for use in schools. It went through 270 editions and was translated into 15 European languages, making it "the most popular and longest selling Bible of its type".[4] For clarification, he adapted biblical stories to more recent stories to teach values. One modern historian, noting his credulity, has described him as "not very talented, but very widely read".[5]

Works

Literatur

References

  1. Historic Brass Society Journal, Vol. 8 (1996), p.15
  2. Georg Lehner (10 May 2011). China in European Encyclopaedias, 1700-1850. BRILL. p. 63. ISBN 978-90-04-20150-7. Retrieved 2 May 2013.
  3. Giovanni Santinello (2011). Models of the History of Philosophy: From the Cartesian Age to Brucker. Springer. p. 508. ISBN 978-90-481-9507-7. Retrieved 2 May 2013.
  4. Gottfried Adam (2005). "Protestantism and modernisation in German children's literature of the late 18th century". In Jan de Maeyer. Religion, Children's Literature and Modernity in Western Europe: 1750-2000. Leuven University Press. pp. 237–9. ISBN 978-90-5867-497-5. Retrieved 2 May 2013.
  5. John Arnold (2000). History: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press. p. 65. ISBN 978-0-19-160637-3. Retrieved 2 May 2013.

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