Daniel Wilhelm Moller

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Daniel Wilhelm Moller (also: Müller, Raimund Rimand * 26. May 1642 in Bratislava ; † 25. February 1712 in Altdorf ) was a born in Hungary German polymath .

Life

The son of goldsmith and jeweler Otto Möller and his wife Rebekka (née Berghammer) had studied language in Bohemia and attended high school in his hometown. In 1660 he traveled through Austria, Moravia, Bohemia and Saxony. In Saxony he moved to the University of Leipzig , from there in 1661 he moved to the University of Wittenberg , where he was accepted into the house of Johann Andreas Quenstedt . He completed his initial philosophical and theological studies with Aegidius Strauch II , Johannes Meisner , Abraham Calov and Christian Trentsch (1605–1677), among others .

He earned a master's degree in philosophy in October 1662 and was appointed Poeta laureatus . In 1663 he traveled to Holland, England, Silesia, Prussia and Poland and in 1664 came to the University of Strasbourg , where he continued his theological studies. Here he attended lectures with Johann Conrad Dannhauer , Balthasar Bebel and Balthasar Scheidt (1614–1670) and learned the French language. After giving lectures in Strasbourg himself, he worked as a tutor in Colmar and then went on trips to Switzerland, France and Italy.

In 1670 Moller returned to Pressburg and in 1671 became sub-principal at the grammar school in his home town. During this time, however, people who belonged to the Protestant faith were persecuted in Hungary. As he was subject to reprisals himself, he fled to Germany. Here he was offered tasks in a wide variety of places, which he largely turned down. Finally he came to Nuremberg, where in 1674 he was appointed professor of history and metaphysics. Moller had taken over the position of librarian at the University of Altdorf from his father-in-law Wagenseil , was in close contact with Philipp Jacob Spener , and in the course of his university career he received a lot of recognition for his work.

In 1693 he was appointed Count Palatine by Emperor Leopold , in Italy he was appointed to the Accademia dei Ricovrati (Societas Recuperatorum) in Padua, in Germany to the Academy of Natural Scientists (Leopoldina) , and he was accepted into the Society of Imperial Historians. Moller also took part in the organizational tasks of the Altdorf University of Applied Sciences , was twice rector of the alma mater and ten times dean of the philosophical faculty.

Moller has married twice. His first marriage was in 1685 with Anna Sybilla Braun, who however died childless in 1691. His second marriage was in October 1692 with the learned Helena Sibylla (* June 16, 1669; † September 29, 1735), the only daughter of Johann Christoph Wagenseil . This marriage also remained childless.

Works (selection)

  • Oratio de confusione babylonica. Wittenberg 1662
  • Dispute. De re, absolute entis synonymo. Wittenberg 1663
  • Trutina doctorum et doctorum. Macerate 1665
  • Bethender Daniel, that is a short term devout prayer, directed to the 4 faculties known to scholars. Cologne 1666
  • Retorsio ad criminationes Cl. Schneegassi. Wittenberg 1662, 1667
  • De Bohemico nihilo alchimistico. Cologne 1667
  • Faithful reminder to all studying Germans, especially those who are devoted to the holy scriptures that they may begin, continue and complete the Italian journey with due preparation. 1668
  • Pedis admiranda.
  • Aedificatio Enae a Medulixiconite.
  • Meditatio Stoica de conditione temporis praesentis ad amicum. Frankfurt 1673
  • Meditatio de insectis quibusdam Hungaricis prodigiosis, anno proximo praetertito ex aëre una cum niue in agros delipsis, ad amicum ARM Frankfurt 1673
  • Loss of churches and schools in Presburg etc. 1673
  • Disp. De Synoride. Altdorf 1673
  • Horaria meditatio questionis: num S. Pauli caput I: ad Rome. Sine profanorum auctorum, maxime Petronii, cognition intelligi queat? Ad amicum. Altdorf 1674
  • Curriculum poeticum ad amicum. Altdorf 1674
  • Opuscula ethica et problematico-critica. Frankfurt 1674
  • Opuscula medico-historico philologica. Francfurt 1674
  • Progr. De historia nostril saeculi. Altdorf 1676
  • Disp. De salamandra. 1677
  • Promissum de mulieribus hominibus exsolutum, cum epistola ad amicum. Altdorf 1677
  • Guil. Du Val synopsis analytica metaphysicorum Aristotelis ex accurate recensione denuo recusa. Altdorf 1677
  • Canteen Poëtica. Altdorf 1678
  • Progr. De Jobeleis. Altdorf 1678
  • Progr. De praeparatione abiturientium in Italiam. Altdorf 1679
  • Disp. De fabula Monte Fiasconia: propter nimium, est, est dominus meus mortuus est . Altdorf 1680
  • Inuitatio ad audiendas controuersias metaphysicas. Altdorf 1680
  • Inuitatio ad lectiones in Q. Curtium R. instituendas. 1680
  • Disp. inaug. de mempsimoeria (together with Johann Adam Tresenreuter ). Altdorf 1702; OCLC: 165104276

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matriculation UWB (AAV V. 234 a)
personal data
SURNAME Moller, Daniel Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Raimund Rimand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian polyhistor
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1642
PLACE OF BIRTH Pressburg , Royal Hungary
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1712
Place of death Altdorf , Imperial City of Nuremberg , Holy Roman Empire