Johann Christian Thomae

Johann Christian Thomae (5 April 1668 – 19 March 1724) was a German historian and biographer and a Lutheran rector of Neustadt bei Coburg.

Thomae was born on 5 April 1668 at the house of his maternal grandfather, in Heldburg, Duchy of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg.

His father was Stephan Thomae,[1] the Lutheran pastor of Wiesenfeld bei Coburg and later of Neuhaus (now Neuhaus-Schierschnitz) and Sonnefeld.

[2] Privately educated, Thomae came to Coburg in late May 1679 to join the Primary Class at the city's Collegiate School.

In 1697, he was appointed as the Rector for the parish of Neustadt bei Coburg.

Titlepage of Licht am Abend , published in 1722