HABERKORN, ha'barkern, PETER: Lutheran theologian and controversialist; b. at Butzbach (24 m. n. of Frankfort), Hesse, May 9, 1604; d. at Giessen Apr. 1676. In 1625 he went to Marburg, where he acquitted himself with such success as to win the approval and friendship of Mentzer. After passing some time at Leipsic and Strasburg, and at Cologne to acquaint himself with the Roman Catho sic polemic, he became in 1632 professor of physics at Marburg, but resigned in the following year to become court preacher at Giessen, where in 1650 he was made professor of theology in the reorgan ized university. After the death of his father-in-law, Justus Feuerborn, in 1658 he held the rank of senior professor in theology and was the recognized head of the faculty. His importance rests in the fact that he may be said to have held the Univer sity of Giessen and with it Upper Hesse faithful to the doctrines of the orthodox Lutheranism. Most noteworthy of his writings against the Roman Catholics is the Vindicatio Ltdherante fulei contra Hetfericum Ulrieum Hunnium (Marburg, 1633). Against the Syncretists he wrote: Fidelis contra Syncretismum indituta admonitio (Giessen, 1665); Enodatio errorum Syncretiaticorum (1665); Vindicue Syncretie»w Casselano opposites de S. Cwna (1669).
Bibliography: F. W. Strieder, Grundlage s u einer heesiaehan Gelehrten- and Schriftetellerfiewhichte, vol. v., 21 vols.. Göttingen, 1781-1888; H. L. J. Heppe, Kirchengeschichts beider Hamm vol. ii., Marburg, 1878; dDB, vol. z
HABERMANN, ha'blir-man, JOHANN (JOHANNES AVENARIUS): German Protestant theologian; b. at Eger (92 m. w. of Prague) Aug. 10, 1516; d. at Zeitz (23 m. s.w. of Leipsic) Dec. 5, 1590. He went over to the Evangelical Church about 1540, studied theology, and filled a number of pastorates. After a brief academic activity at Jena and Wittenberg, in 1575, he accepted a call as superintendent of Naumburg-Zeitz. Though praised by his con temporaries as an Old Testament exegete, his sig nificance lies in the practical field. He published a number of sermons, a Trm"chlein, a life of Christ, and above all the prayer-book, Christliche Gebett für allerley Not and Stende der gantzen Chrmtenheit (Wittenberg, 1567), in which, for the first time, the prayers for various Christian needs were appor tioned among the several days of the week. With a few exceptions the prayers are written in plain Biblical language, without ornament. The work was translated into Latin, English (The Enimie of Securitie, London, 1580), and French, and was widely circulated in Protestant circles. Despite its occasional crudities of expression the book is still used; and some of the prayers have passed into church books.
Bibliography: Sources are the funeral sermon by J. Oertel, Leipsic, 1591; Zeuner, Vito professorum Jenensium, i. 88 sqq., Jena, 1711. Consult: H. Beek Die Erbau-
unpalitteratur der evanpetischen Kirche Deutschlands, i. 270 sqq., Erlangen, 1883; idem, J. Habarmann. sin Gedenkblatt, Pfarrhaus, 1890.
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