David Mehner (hymn poet, 1694)

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David Mehner (also: Möhner ; born August 30, 1694 in Waldheim , † 1756 in Dresden ) was a German Lutheran clergyman and hymn poet.

Life

David Mehner attended the Kreuzschule in Dresden on May 24, 1707 and studied at the University of Wittenberg from June 27, 1715 . Here he acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy on April 29, 1719 , returned to Dresden and became a theology candidate there. In that capacity he taught two North American princes from Carolina and Georgia who were then in Dresden. He instructed them in the German language and in theological matters so that they could be baptized. He then became cabinet minister to the widowed Queen and Electress Christine Eberhardine , in 1725 pastor of the Annenkirche in Dresden's Friedrichstadt district, and died in that capacity. He became known as a sacred songwriter. He had brought out these songs in his "Collection of Chants Concerning House and Marriage".

Selection of works

  1. Church sighs, to be used at the strangest seasons and festivals. Dresden, 1733
  2. Accidental thoughts of the enemies of their houses, and their safekeeping and maintenance, etc. Dresden, 1738
  3. The glorious Kleinseyn of a great man of God etc. Dresden, 1750
  4. Collection of some chants concerning the household and marital status, partly to be used for weddings. Dresden, 1750
  5. Two sermons about Holy Communion, as one food for the healthy and the sick, etc. Along with an appendix, in which the Lord of Loen's errors about it are noted and refuted. Dresden, 1754

literature

  • L. u .:  Mehner, David . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, p. 187.
  • Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Publisher Gerhard Fleischer d. J., Leipzig, 1809, Vol. 9, p. 19
  • Gottfried Lebrecht Richter: General Biographical Lexicon of Old and New Sacred Song Poets. Verlag Gottfried Martini, Leipzig, 1804, p. 228

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willy Richter: The register of the Kreuzschule: Gymnasium zum Heiligen Kreuz in Dresden. Verlag Degener, 1967, Gießen, ISBN 978-3-7686-4001-5 vol. 1 p. 90
  2. ^ Fritz Juntke: Album Academiae Vitebergensis - Younger Series Part 3. Halle (Saale), 1966 p. 305
personal data
SURNAME Mehner, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Möhner, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran clergyman and hymn poet
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1694
PLACE OF BIRTH Waldheim
DATE OF DEATH 1756
Place of death Dresden