Christian Münden

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Christian Münden (born August 13, 1684 in Burg auf Fehmarn ; † August 9, 1741 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and pastor.

Life

Münden came from Burg on Fehmarn, where his father was a state inspector. He attended high school in Lübeck and in 1701 moved to Kiel University to study theology . In 1705 he moved to the University of Leipzig , where he earned his master's degree and gave his first lectures on the Old Testament . After the Swedes invaded Saxony in the Great Northern War , he fled to Göttingen , where he became professor of ancient Greek and Hebrew at the grammar school in 1708. As a writer of school programs and scholarly treatises, including an etymologicum sacrum to the New Testament , he has earned an academic reputation. In 1716 he was appointed pastor at the Johanniskirche .

In 1727 he again moved from the pulpit to the chair and accepted a call as a full professor of theology at the University of Helmstedt , combined with the dignity of Doctor theologiae . From Helmstedt he went to Frankfurt am Main in 1730 as pastor of the Katharinenkirche and consistorial councilor . In 1732 he became senior of the Lutheran Ministry of Preachers as the successor to the late Johann Georg Pritius and chief preacher at the Barefoot Church . In the conflict within the Frankfurt Church, he mediated between Lutheran orthodoxy and Pietist separatists in order to maintain the unity of the Lutheran community. However , he vehemently rejected the legal equality of the Reformed , who in 1735 had asked the city council for the right to exercise their religion freely. Outwardly, he campaigned for the mission to the Jews in the tradition of Philipp Jacob Spener .

In 1737, for the 200th anniversary of the Schmalkaldic articles , Münden had a reprint with a preface written by him and preached on several Sundays one after the other about the articles. The imperial resident in Frankfurt, Baron Wetzel, took offense and obtained a condemnation by the imperial Fiscus : Münden had reviled the Catholic religion and worship in his sermons “contrary to the constitution”; the Schmalkaldic articles which he published in public were a script filled with the crudest and harshest blasphemies. The Reichshof Chancellery sentenced Münden to a fine of 20 gold marks and demanded that the book be confiscated. The City Council of Frankfurt defended its senior and called the Corpus Evangelicorum for support. The Corpus took care of the matter and in 1739 sent a letter of intercession to Emperor Charles VI. endure.

Münden died on August 9, 1741 in Frankfurt am Main. His successor as senior was Heinrich Andreas Walther .

Works (selection)

  • Selectae theses theologicae universam doctrinam christianam exhibentes , Helmstedt 1730
  • Frankfurt religious negotiations between the Reformers and the Rath , Frankfurt am Main 1735
  • Historical report of the first inventors of this art , the Frankfurt book printers and the third book printer Jubel-Fest , Frankfurt am Main 1741

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Dechent, communications from the Association for History and Antiquity in Frankfurt am Main 1885, Vol. VII, Issue 6, pp. 243-252
predecessor Office successor
Johann Georg Pritius Senior of the Ministry of Preachers in Frankfurt am Main
1732–1741 		Heinrich Andreas Walther
personal data
SURNAME Münden, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and pastor
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1684
PLACE OF BIRTH Castle on Fehmarn
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1741
Place of death Frankfurt am Main