Albin Moller

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Albin Moller
Memorial stone for Albin Moller in front of the rectory in Straupitz

Albin Moller , also Albinus Mollerus , (* 1541 in Straupitz ; † December 26, 1618 in Altdöbern ) was a Sorbian theologian and writer . He published the first book in the Sorbian language .

Life

Albin Moller probably came from a family of an official of the Counts of Dohna , but learned the Sorbian language in his childhood. First he attended the Latin school in Calau . He later studied theology at the University of Frankfurt / Oder and from 1568 at the University of Wittenberg . He then worked in the area of ​​the Sorbian-speaking communities in Niederlausitz . In 1572 he worked as a clergyman in Tornow in the Calau district. In the same year he became pastor in his birthplace Straupitz. He held this office for two years.

In 1574 he had a Wendish hymn book written by him printed by Hans Wolrab in Bautzen at his own expense. It is the first book in the Sorbian language. The work contains 120 chorales and psalm songs that he had translated from German into Sorbian. Even the little Catechism Martin Luther is included in the Sorbian language in the book. In 1582 he published a work on plant names , with the Latin and German names and the Sorbian names listed. It is the oldest list of Sorbian plant names.

Moller was also interested in astronomy and astrology and published various works on this. Such a work was published by Wolrab in Bautzen as early as 1572. From 1607 at the latest, Moller lived in Altdöbern, where he died in 1618 at the age of 77.

Honor

In front of the rectory of the Straupitz village church , a memorial stone commemorates Albinus Mollerus.

Fonts

  • Prognosticon Astrologicum. On the four times and other meanings of the planets / and stars first on 1573, then on 1574 after the birth of Christ . Hans Wolrab, Bautzen 1572
  • Wendish hymnbook . Hans Wolrab, Bautzen 1574; Reprint: Lower Sorbian hymn book and catechism. Printed at Budissin, 1574 (= publications of the Institute for Slavonic Studies, Volume 18). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1959
Digitized version , National I.-I.-Metschnikow University of Odessa
  • Calendarium Ecclesiasticum perprtuum & syllabatim ediscendum. That is, an everlasting church calendar ... Hans Wolrab, Bautzen 1574
Digitized version , National I.-I.-Metschnikow University of Odessa
  • Namenn of the foremost doctorsney Kreuter Ihn Latin Deutz and Wendish languages . 1582
  • The great Practica astrologica ... 1596 ... Leipzig 1595
  • The big one: Practica Astrologica, that is: Natural and thorough prognostication and proclamation of the thunderstorms of the four times, also of darkness, war and other accidents, of trips, legation and trade on land and water ... Leipzig [around 1599]
  • Old and new writing calendar on the jar after our Lord Jhesu Christi birth MDCI . Magdeburg [around 1600]

literature

  • Knihopis českých a slovenských tisků. Volume 2, part 5, Prague 1950, pp. 186–194 (information on 26 of his Czech-language calendars, Czech)
  • Heinz Schuster-Šewc : Comparative historical phonology of the language of Albin Moller. A contribution to the history of the Lower Sorbian language (= publications of the Institute for Slavonic Studies, Volume 15). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1958, especially pp. 1-6
  • Heinz-Dieter Krausch : On the life story of Albin Moller. In: Lětopis . Volume A 14 (2), 1967, pp. 180-181
  • Frido Mětšk : Mollerus, Albin . In: Serbski biografiski słownik. Domowina, Budyšin 1970, p. 182 (with picture, Sorbian)
  • Heinz-Dieter Krausch: Contributions to the life story of Albin Moller. In: Lětopis. Volume A 25 (2), 1978, pp. 159–182 (with pictures and catalog raisonné (118 titles))
  • Frido Mětšk: Moller, Albin. In: Nowy biografiski słownik. Domowina, Budyšin 1984, pp. 391–392 (with picture, Sorbian)
  • Ernst Eichler (Ed.): Slavic Studies in Germany from the Beginnings to 1945. Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1993, ISBN 3-7420-1538-9 , pp. 271-272
  • Heinz-Dieter Krausch: Moller, Albin. In: Friedrich Beck and Eckart Henning (eds.): Brandenburgisches Biographisches Lexikon (= individual publication by the Brandenburg Historical Commission eV, Volume 5). Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam 2002, ISBN 3-935035-39-X , pp. 287–288 (with picture).
  • Heinz-Dieter Krausch: The plants of the medicinal herbs list by Albin Moller 1582. In: Negotiations of the Botanical Association of Berlin and Brandenburg. Volume 136, 2003, pp. 5–21
  • Doris Teichmann : Albinus Mollerus Straupicensis . In Rozhlad . Issue 1. 2013. ( online ) Lower Sorbian

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personal data
SURNAME Moller, Albin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mollerus, Albinus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sorbian theologian, writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH 1541
PLACE OF BIRTH Straupitz
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 1618
Place of death Altdöbern