Diedrich Konrad Muhle

Diedrich Konrad Muhle (born August 13, 1780 in Ovelgönne , † September 6, 1869 in Oldenburg ) was a German pastor and chronicler .

Life

Muhles parents were the pupil writer Hinrich Muhle and his second wife Margarethe Elisabeth. From 1797 he was a student at the Oldenburg high school . From 1800 to 1803 he studied theology at the University of Helmstedt . After graduating, he was employed as a tutor in Ellwürden and Rodenkirchen . After his second theological exam in 1809, he got a job as a catechist in Berne in 1810 . In 1815 he became a pastor in Hude . After the death of his parents, Muhle also had to feed his siblings, and because of his low income, he had great financial worries for years. In 1834, Muhle was transferred to Schwei , where he worked as a pastor. However, he did not adequately fulfill his duties, which is why he received a strict warning from the consistory , which threatened him with dismissal. After more than twenty years in Sweat, Muhle suffered from a foot disease and took leave for the rest of his life. He moved to Oldenburg, where he died at the old age of 89.

Muhle positioned himself politically conservative and rejected any liberal or progressive ideas. Due to his keen interest in history, he wrote various writings on the history of Oldenburg. However, only part of this work has been published. The creation of two detailed chronicles for the parishes of Hude and Schwei is a great achievement .

family

On April 15, 1811 , Muhle married his cousin Sophie. The marriage had a daughter and eight sons.

reception

Georg Sello , like Muhle, worked for the Hude monastery , in his work Das Cisterzienserkloster Hude near Oldenburg he sharply criticized Muhle and his way of working and described him as “[the] naive, zealous and gullible chronicler”. Hans Friedl also describes Muhles historical work in his biographical article as "completely useless", but emphasizes the value of the two chronicles as "partly a collection of social historical material for regional history in the first half of the 19th century".

Works

• News about the parish of Hude (written: 1815–1823), Hude parish archives, copy in the Oldenburg State Library (LBO); Excerpt: The Hude Monastery in the Duchy of Oldenburg, Oldenburg 1826.
• Chronicle of Hude, parish archive Hude, copy in the LBO; Excerpt: Table on the history of the parish of Hude, in: Oldenburgische Blätter, No. 26, 1824.
• Memorial of the storm surge 1825, MS, LBO; History of the Stedingerland in the Middle Ages, in: Christian Friedrich Strackerjan, Contributions to the History of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, Bd. 1, Bremen 1837.
• Genealogy of the most serene house of Oldenburg, MS, LBO; Oldenburg History, Vol. 1, 1835.
• Directory of Protestant preachers in the Duchy of Oldenburg (for the period 1510–1808), MS, StAO.
• Schweyer Chronik, 2 vol., (Written 1834–1860), MS, Schwei parish archive, copies in the LBO, in the library of the Oldenburg landscape and in the Lower Saxony State Archives, Oldenburg location (StAO).

literature

• Hans Friedl: Muhle, Diedrich Konrad. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , p. 486 f.
• Werner Barre: Diedrich Konrad Muhle (1780–1869), the chronicler of Hude and Schwei, in: Oldenburgische Familienkunde, 23, 1981, pp. 302–327.
• Werner Barre: Genealogical and historical news about the families Muhle and Frisius by Pastor Diedrich Konrad Muhle (1780–1869), Oldenburgische Familienkunde, 31, 1989, pp. 2–43.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg. Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , p. 486f.