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

Life

Johann Hübner attended school in

Zittau Zittau ( hsb, Žitawa, dsb, Žytawa, pl, Żytawa, cs, Žitava, Upper Lusatian Dialect: ''Sitte''; from Slavic "'' rye''" (Upper Sorbian and Czech: ''žito'', Lower Sorbian: ''žyto'', Polish: ''żyto'')) is the southeasternmost city in the Ge ...

before studying theology, poetry, rhetoric, geography and history at the

University of Leipzig Leipzig University (german: Universität Leipzig), in Leipzig in Saxony, Germany, is one of the world's oldest universities and the second-oldest university (by consecutive years of existence) in Germany. The university was founded on 2 Decemb ...

. In 1694 he became rector of the Gymnasium in

Merseburg Merseburg () is a town in central Germany in southern Saxony-Anhalt, situated on the river Saale, and approximately 14 km south of Halle (Saale) and 30 km west of Leipzig. It is the capital of the Saalekreis district. It had a dioces ...

.''Historic Brass Society Journal'', Vol. 8 (1996), p.15 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. In 1711 he became rector of the

Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums The ''Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums'' ( ''Academic School of the Johanneum'', short: Johanneum) is a Gymnasium (or Grammar School ) in Hamburg, Germany. It is Hamburg's oldest school and was founded in 1529 by Johannes Bugenhagen. The school's f ...

in Hamburg. 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". For clarification, he adapted biblical stories to more recent stories to teach values. One modern historian, noting his

credulity Credulity is a person's willingness or ability to believe that a statement is true, especially on minimal or uncertain evidence. Credulity is not necessarily a belief in something that may be false: the subject of the belief may even be correct, but ...

, has described him as "not very talented, but very widely read".

Works

*Kurtze Fragen aus der alten und neuen Geographie, Leipzig 1693. *Poetisches Handbuch. 1696, 1710, 1720, 1742. *Kurtze Fragen aus der politischen Historie, 1697. *Kurtze Fragen aus der Oratoria. 1702, 1709. *Museum geographicum oder Verzeichnis der besten Landcharten so in Deutschland, Franckreich, England und Holland... 1712, 1726, 1742. *Vorrede zum Curieusen Natur-Kunst-Gewerck- und Handlungs-Lexicon. 1712. *Zweymal zwey und funffzig Auserlesene Biblische Historien, der Jugend zum Besten abgefasset. 1714, 1731 (1986). *Lexicon genealogicum, Das ist: Ein Verzeichniß aller itzt lebenden Hohen Häupter in der Politischen Welt, 5.edition Hamburg 1736. *Bibliotheca Genealogica, Das ist: Ein Verzeichniß aller Alten und Neuen Genealogischen Bücher von allen Nationen in der Welt, Brandt, Hamburg 1729. Literatur * ''Curieuses und reales Natur-, Kunst-, Berg-, Gewerck- und Handlungs-Lexicon'' . Gleditsch, Leipzig 7th ed. 173
Digital edition
by the University and State Library Düsseldorf

References

External links

Johann Hübner biography

Huebner, Johann
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hubner, Johann 1668 births 1731 deaths People from Bogatynia People from the Electorate of Saxony 18th-century German historians German geographers German schoolteachers German male non-fiction writers German genealogists