Adam Erdmann Mirus

Adam Erdmann Mirus (also: Miro, Miri ; born November 26, 1656 in Adorf / Vogtl. , † June 3, 1728 in Zittau ) was a German educator, orientalist, popular science writer and lexicographer.

Life

Adam Erdmann Mirus was the son of the pastor in Adorf and adjunct of the superintendent of Oelsnitz / Vogtl. Johann Mirus (born June 30, 1618 in Adorf; † May 11, 1674 in Adorf) and Rosina Höfer (born January 18, 1624 in Adorf; † March 1, 1670 in Adorf).

Adam Erdmann Mirus received his first lessons in the city school and from his father. In 1672 he moved to the grammar school in Zwickau , where he became a student of the famous Zwickau rector Christian Daum . In 1674 he moved to the grammar school in Halle (Saale) , where the musician Johann Praetorius was the rector of the institution.

On September 14, 1677 he moved to the University of Wittenberg to study theology, philosophy and philology. Here he acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy on October 14, 1679 and after drawing attention to himself through numerous disputations and treatises on theological, philosophical, namely ethical, even legal subjects and occasionally also on burning issues of the day, the philosophical one appointed him Faculty on April 21, 1684 as adjunct of the philosophical faculty. In the same year he followed a call as vice-principal of the grammar school in Zittau, which he remained for forty-four years, until his death from a stroke.

In Zittau Mirus experienced the terms of office of four rectors of the institution. For example Christian Weise (1642–1708), Gottfried Hoffmann (1658–1712), Johann Christoph Wenzel (1659–1723) and Gottfried Polycarp Müller (1685–1747), some of whom he had also written their memorial speeches. His official activity was rooted in the Secunda, where, in addition to religious instruction, he also directed the linguistic and stylistic exercises in Latin, and taught Greek, which was generally neglected. In addition to Hebrew, he also represented this subject in the Prima. His successor Samuel Friedrich Bucher (1692–1765) said after him that his loyal zeal and firm insistence on imprinting and practicing the essentials was a typical feature of Mirus.

family

From his first marriage on May 14, 1686 in Zittau to Anna Rosina (born April 26, 1663 in Zittau, † April 5, 1709 in Zittau), a daughter of the noble citizen and doctor who practiced in Zittau, Dr. med. Friedrich Gerber (born May 16, 1622 in Zittau; † November 15, 1692 in Zittau) and his wife Emerantia Girisch (born September 18, 1639 in Zittau; † February 22, 1709 in Zittau) he had three sons and three daughters who died early and a stillborn child:

1. Johann Friedrich Mirus (* 1691 in Zittau; † May 29, 1747 in Zittau), initially studied theology, but passed his master's degree in physics in 1716 in Wittenberg. Was named cand. Theol. Member of the preachers' college in Zittau. On November 30, 1728 he married Johanna Sophia Hornigk in Zittau († May 10, 1742 in Zittau). From 1742 until his death he worked as an informator in the orphanage in Zittau.

2. Christian Erdmann Mirus (born March 25, 1701 in Zittau; † 1771 in Zittau) completed his law studies in Erfurt in 1725 as Juris Utriusque Licentiatus. On October 18, 1729 he married Charlotte Amalie Behnes in Zittau († March 21, 1748 in Zittau). Until 1748 he worked as a lawyer and notary; died in 1771 as a copyist. There were no grandchildren of his eight children, so that this branch of the family has died out.

August 3, Gottlob Mirus (born April 9, 1705 in Zittau; † January 4, 1731 in Zittau) finished his law studies in Wittenberg in 1729 as Juris Utriusque Licentiatus. On February 14, 1730, he married Maria Rosina Friedrich in Zittau. The almost one year marriage remained childless; August Gottlob died of tuberculosis.

His second marriage on August 25, 1711 with Anna Rosina Nesen (* 1655 in Zittau; † February 1, 1730 in Zittau), widow of the late Tertius Joachim Curtius, remained childless.

Works (selection)

Mirus wrote educational texts, numerous memorial speeches on deceased benefactors of the Zittau high school, dealt with the history of Lusatia and its scholars. From the writings of his treatises at the Wittenberg University, three lexicons emerged.

• Poemata Phocylidis, Pythagorae et Naumachii. 1685
• Rudimenta grammaticae graecae. 1690
• de rebus lusatorum. Bautzen 1695 ( online )
• de Lusatorum in rempublicam litterariam meritis. 1718
• de Initia doctrinae evangelicae per Lusatiam superiorem sparsae. Zittau, 1721
• de historia scholae Zittaviensis ante et post reformationem. Zittau, 1721
• Kurtze questions from the Genealogia Sacra: in what a strange light is given to lovers in the Biblical Histories, along with the necessary registers. 1708 ( online )
• Brief description of the city of Jerusalem. 1709
• Kurtze questions from the Architectonica Sacra: In which those lovers of their biblical histories are given a strange light through a thorough explanation of the biblical buildings and all kinds of merck-worthy antiques, with an added register. 1709 ( online )
• Kurtze questions from the Metallurgia Sacra: In which those lovers of their Biblical Histories are given a special light through a thorough explanation of all kinds of remarkable antiques, together with an attached register. 1713 ( online )
• Brief questions from the Oeconomia sacra. 1706 ( online )
• Brief questions from the Ethica sacra. 1707 ( online )
• Brief questions from the Politica sacra. 1707 ( online )
• Kurtze questions from the Musica Sacra: In which those lovers are given a special stretcher message when reading the Biblical Histories. 1715, Reprint Cornetto-Verl., 2004
• Kurtze questions from the Physica Sacra: in which those lovers of their biblical histories are given a strange light through a thorough explanation of all kinds of remarkable antiquities. 1708
• Kurtze questions from the suffering and death of Jesus Christ, in which lovers of Biblical histories are given a special light when they are read ... 1714
• Kurtze questions from the Pneumatica sacra, in which it is brought under the eyes what nature begins to teach of Christians, ad salvation. Scripture explained. 1710
• Kurtze questions from the Proverbis Sacris, by which lovers of Biblical Histories are given a special light by a thorough explanation of all kinds of remarkable antiquities; together with the attached register. 1716
• Brief questions from the Chronologia sacra. 1708
• Brief questions from the Rhetorica sacra: In what a strange light is given to lovers of the Holy Scriptures in the Inventio, Dispositio and Elocution; together with an appendix from the Studio Homiletico. 1712
• Kurtze questions from the Geometria Sacra. 1711, 1713
• Kurtze questions from the Freyen mechanical and peasant arts of the Hebrews. 1713
• Kurtze presentation of the Greek churches: or, like the same today in the Turkish area, Moscow, Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem, item with those Nestorians, Jacobites, Coptites, Armenians, Abyssins, Georgians, Melchites, migrants, & c. to be found; wobey their ... 1725
• Biblical antiquities dictionary. Leipzig 1714 ( online ) and 1727 ( online )
• Lexicon antiquitatum ecclesiasticarum. Bautzen 1717 ( online )
• Onomasticum biblicum or Lexicon aller nominum propriorum ... in the Holy Scriptures. Leipzig 1721

literature

• Otto Kaemmel:  Mirus, Adam Erdmann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, pp. 780-782.
• Hermann Kühn: Origin, career and family of the Zittau high school principal Adam Erdmann Mirus (1656–1728). In: Zeitschrift für Mitteldeutsche Familiengeschichte vol. 60 (2019), pp. 21–44.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Matr. UWB (AAV V 228, b)
2. ↑ Weise and Hoffmann. Zittau 1713