Arnold Mengering

Portrait of Arnold Mengering in the Marktkirche in Halle

Arnold Mengering (born September 1, 1596 in Halle ; † January 12, 1647 ibid) was a German Lutheran theologian.

Live and act

Mengering was born as the youngest son of five children of the Dutch merchant Heinrich Mengering (* Deventer; † May 13, 1608 in Halle) and his wife Anna († 1598 in Halle), daughter of the Leipzig blacksmith Lucas Krause. Since he had lost his parents early, the penniless orphan was able to complete school and high school in Halle with the financial support of influential friends.

They also supported him financially when he began studying at the University of Wittenberg on May 2, 1615 . Soon, however, he was able to acquire an electoral Saxon scholarship through excellent achievements. After initial philosophical studies, which he completed on September 27, 1618 with the academic degree of a master's degree, Mengering had turned to theological studies. He attended lectures by Friedrich Balduin , Leonhard Hutter , and Balthasar Meisner, and was particularly encouraged by Wolfgang Franz .

In 1619 he moved to the University of Jena to continue his theology studies with Johannes Major and Johann Gerhard . After he was accepted as an adjunct in the philosophical faculty in Jena in 1621 , he went to Colbitz as pastor in 1622 , was pastor in the Magdeburg suburb of Sudenburg in 1624 , moved to Löbejün as senior pastor in 1627 and was in his hometown as pastor on December 3rd Hallesches Dom has been employed. During the occupation of the city of Halle during the Thirty Years' War , he was deposed and expelled by the Roman Catholic clergy in 1630.

He found asylum in Bitterfeld , went to the Saxon court in Dresden as second court preacher in 1631 and worked as court preacher and assessor at the consistory for Duke Johann Philipp in Altenburg from May 1635 . After he received his doctorate in theology at the Jena Academy on April 20, 1638 , after the death of his employer in 1640 he moved to Halle as superintendent and high school professor , where he worked until the end of his life.

Most of his writings were created in the context of his professional activity. As a representative of Lutheran orthodoxy , he was a widely respected theologian and also left its mark on the history of the hymn.

family

Mengering was married twice. His first marriage was on October 1, 1622 in Halle with Anna (* June 5, 1602 in Halle; † March 4, 1633 in Dresden), the daughter of the Pfänner and lawyer Andreas Schäffer and his wife Maria, the daughter of the citizen in Hall Jacob Peters. His second marriage was on July 22, 1634 in Freiberg with Anna Margaretha (* January 27, 1614, † June 6, 1661), the daughter of the Freiberg archdeacon Balthasar Wagner and his wife Margaretha (née Rudolph). There are seven sons and four daughters from both marriages. We know from the children:

• Andreas (* 1623 in Colbitz, † young)
• Heinrich Andreas (born April 1, 1624 in Magdeburg; † 1663) Lic. & Dr. med., 1663 city physician in Magdeburg, teacher at Grimma grammar school, married 10. November 1651 with Concordia Charitas, the daughter of the Leipzig tax collector Sebastian Dreher
• Arnold (born November 13, 1627 in Lobejün † 1675) Dr. jur., Syndikus Frankfurt / Oder
• Christian (baptized November 13, 1627 in Lobejün), pastor at the St. Jacobi Church in Leipzig
• Anna Martha (* 1633 in Dresden) married. on November 30, 1652 with the pastor in Friedeburg Andreas Kather
• Elisabeth (born April 18, 1634 in Dresden; † June 14, 1637)
• Stillborn daughter
• Stillborn daughter
• Heinrich Balthasar (* 1640 † young)
• Gottfried Arnold (baptized March 16, 1641 in Halle; † March 26, 1641 there)
• Johann Arnold (baptized December 4, 1643 in Halle), 1656–62 Gym. Pforta

Selection of works

• Scrutinium conscientiae. Altenburg 1643, 1652
• Informatorium conscienntiae. Altenburg 1644, Leipzig 1653, Jena 1661
• suscitabulum conscientiae. Altenburg 1646
• Refectorium conscientiae. Altenburg 1647
• harmonia epistolico-evangelica. Altenburg 1645
• gazophylacium Nehemiae ecclesiasticum pentagonum. Coburg
• Oeconomia Salomonica
• vade mecum propheticum. Altenburg 1633, 1640
• Altenburg sermon of hereditary homage. Altenburg 1639
• Belialis stratiotici consobrinus sceleratus Metator. Altenburg 1639, 1642
• Belsazeris sacrilegium. Altenburg 1641
• Horologia or Eyd Booklet. Altenburg 1644
• Elenctica de pane eucharistico.
• Strena australis scholae catecheticae.
• Perversa ultimi seculi malizia.
• Vale Dresdense
• Tobias Conscieniosus. Altenburg (in German), Leipzig 1686
• Soteria Altenburcica
• Horologium Principum Davidicum. Leipzig 1640, Eisleben 1666
• Gloria Scribarum. Altenburg 1640
• Quinquennium Altenburgicum. Altenburg 1640
• Vota Januaria Hallensia. Altenburg 1641
• Conciones Jubilaeae
• War Belial or Soldier Devil. Altenburg 1631, 1641, Leipzig 1687

literature

• Paul Tschackert :  Mengering, Arnold . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, p. 348.
• Mengering, Arnold. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 20, Leipzig 1739, column 690 f.
• August Tholuck : Witnesses of the Lutheran Church from all classes before and during the period of the Thirty Years' War. Wiegand and Grieben, Berlin 1859, p. 356 ( GoogleBooks )
• Fritz Roth : Complete evaluations of funeral sermons and personal documents for genealogical and cultural-historical purposes. Self-published, Boppard / Rhein 1970, Volume 6, p. 11, R 5175
• Johann Christoph von Dreyhaupt : Pagus Neletizi et Nudzici, or detailed diplomatic-historical description of the former primacy and Ertz-Stifft, but now secularized by the Duchy of Magdeburg, which belongs to the Duchy of Magdeburg, and of all the cities, palaces, offices, Manors, aristocratic families, churches, monasteries, parishes and villages, especially the cities of Halle, Neumarckt, Glaucha, Wettin, Löbegün, Cönnern and Alsleben; From Actis publicis and credible ... news, collected diligently, reinforced with many unprinted documents, adorned with copperplate engravings and abstracts, and provided with the necessary registers. Verlag Emanuel Schneider, Halle 1749/50, Volume 2, p. 668 f.
• Veronika Albrecht-Birkner : Pastors book of the church province of Saxony. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-374-02138-3 , Volume 6, p. 52 f.
• Albert Fischer, Wilhelm Tümpel, Ancus Martius: The German Protestant hymn of the seventeenth century. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1905, Volume 2, p. 73
• Gottfried Olearius: The righteous and pious / sad / disregarded / but blessed step out of Esa. cap. 57th v. 1. 2 .: Bey… funeral death of… Mr. Arnoldi Mengeringii The holy writings of the famous Doctoris, Wolvermerious Superintendentis… Who was blissfully different in the 51st of his age / the 12th of January of this 1647th year / and the following 18th was put into his resting place ... declared ... and made for printing / by Gottfridum Olearium D. at that time at S. Ulrich Pastorem, now the successorem ordained by the blessedly deceased . Altenburg 1647 ( online at ULB Sachsen-Anhalt - Ponnikau collection)

Web links

• Publications by and about Arnold Mengering in VD 17 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Andreas Merck	Senior Pastor at the Market Church of Our Dear Women 1640–1647	Gottfried Olearius