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Johann Timotheus Hermes
Johann Timotheus Hermes (31 May 1738 – 24 July 1821) was a German poet, novelist and Protestant theologian.
Life.
Life Provenance.
Johann Timotheus Hermes was born in Petznick, a small village near Stargard in Western Pomerania. His father was a Protestant pastor. His mother, Lukrezia, was the daughter of another Protestant pastor, Heinrich Becker from Rostock.
He had an elder brother, Hermann Daniel Hermes (1734–1807), who would attain a certain level of notability as a theologian
, Hermes was the butt of much ridicule from the "literary greats" among his contemporaries. He was ridiculed in Xenien, a collection of Couplets published jointly by Goethe and Schiller.
In 1888 the Johann Timotheus Hermes Bibliophilenverband Vienna-Josefstadt (J.T. Hermes Bibliophilenverband) was founded.