Emil Müller (pastor)

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Portrait in the Museum Grünstadt
Emil Müller, "Grünstadt and Surroundings" , 1904
Emil Müller, "The Palatinate in 1870" , Grünstadt, 1906

Emil Müller (born February 15, 1864 in Eppstein near Frankenthal ; † February 5, 1918 in Münchweiler an der Alsenz ) was a German Protestant pastor as well as a Palatinate local historian , historian and author .

biography

He was born in Eppstein as the son of the tailor Heinrich Müller and his wife Margarethe Elisabeth. Wetzel was born. From 1883 to 1887 Emil Müller studied at the Universities of Erlangen and Strasbourg . In 1887 he entered the service of the Protestant Church of the Palatinate as a clergyman and worked for two years as city vicar in Kaiserslautern . In 1889 he moved to Quirnbach near Kusel , where he was pastor from 1890 to 1901. In 1901 he took over the parish of Sausenheim and in 1908 the parish of Münchweiler an der Alsenz . There he died in 1918. Müller was married to Anna Fertsch from Ludwigshafen-Oppau , after her death he married Berta Fleischner.

Historian and author

In addition to his spiritual office, Emil Müller was an enthusiastic historian and local historian who wrote several books: 1896 the work "From the history of the village of Quirnbach" , 1899 "On the history of higher education" , 1901 "The fire of Kusel in 1794" , 1904 "Grünstadt and surroundings" and 1906 "The Palatinate in 1870" . After he was transferred to Sausenheim near Grünstadt in 1901 , he immediately began to be historically active there, as he had done in Quirnbach. From October 1902 he published the “Leininger Geschichtsblätter” , which he edited until 1915. Together with the Catholic pastor Stephan Lederer (1844–1923), Müller founded the Grünstadt Antiquities Association , which still exists today, in 1903 , and remained its first chairman for many years.

Under the pseudonym E. Montanus, he published the autobiographical work "From the narrow world of a village pastor" in 1903 .

literature

  • Georg Biundo : The evangelical clergy of the Palatinate since the Reformation (Palatinate Pastors' Book) , Verlag Degener, 1968, p. 318
  • Viktor Carl: Lexicon of Palatinate personalities. 3rd, revised. and exp. Ed. Arwid Hennig, Edenkoben 2004, ISBN 3-9804668-5-X , p. 604

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Title in the Heidelberg University Library
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES E. Montanus (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant clergyman, historian local researcher, author
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Eppstein near Frankenthal
DATE OF DEATH February 5, 1918
Place of death Münchweiler on the Alsenz