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Johann Hübner (17 March 1668 – 21 May 1731) was a German geographer and scholar, who taught by question and answer method.
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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.
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 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, has described him as "not very talented, but very widely read".
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