Johann Hübner

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

Johann Hübner attended school in Zittau before studying theology, poetry, rhetoric, geography and history at the University of Leipzig.

In 1704 he wrote the preface to the Reales Staats-, Zaitungs- und Conversations-Lexikon compiled by Philipp Balthasar Sinold von Schütz.

It went through 270 editions and was translated into 15 European languages, making it "the most popular and longest selling Bible of its type".

One modern historian, noting his credulity, has described him as "not very talented, but very widely read".