Friedrich Müller-Langenthal

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Friedrich Müller-Langenthal , also Friedrich Müller the Younger (born October 28, 1884 in Langenthal ; †  February 1, 1969 in Sibiu ) was a Transylvanian teacher, theologian and historian. From 1932 he was Episcopal Vicar and from 1945 Bishop of the Evangelical Regional Church A. B. in Romania .

Life

Friedrich Müller came from a peasant family from a former village of bondage . He completed his school education at the Hermannstädter Gymnasium and then studied mathematics and physics from 1903 to 1905, then history, philosophy and evangelical theology in Leipzig , 1905–1906 in Klausenburg , 1906 in Vienna and 1907–1909 in Berlin .

After completing his studies, he returned to Transylvania and worked as a teacher in Kronstadt , director of the regional church teachers' seminar in Schäßburg and school council in Sibiu. In 1928 F. Müller-Langenthal was elected pastor in Sibiu, where he was also Episcopal Vicar from 1932. Shortly before the end of the Second World War , he became bishop of the Protestant regional church - at a time when the Germans in Romania and their organizations were in dire straits:

  • the families were torn by the war and the consequences of the war and politically without rights,
  • the able-bodied German population was deported to the Soviet Union for forced labor in January 1945 and
  • the agrarian reform of 1945 and the nationalization of industry, trade and banks by the new communist regime had plunged people into existential hardship.

Bishop Müller-Langenthal and the Protestant regional church managed to cope with the burdensome legacy of the recent past and to preserve the church in the most difficult times as the only halfway intact institution of the Transylvanian Saxons and thus continue not only in ecclesiastical and social matters, but also politically for they work. Müller-Langenthal was often adamant, even tough, on the matter. However, he managed to wrest respect from the new atheist rulers and to some, like the first communist prime minister Petru Groza , even maintain good relationships that benefited his church. He also received criticism, both because of the necessary concessions to the regime and because of the "General Agreement between the Evangelical Church and the German Ethnic Group in Romania" (1942), which was concluded in the early 1940s. All in all, however, the Evangelical Church AB in Romania was solid again at the end of its term of office after deep crises.

He was a member of the Coetus Clamidatorum Schäßburgensis.

Works

  • The Transylvanian Saxons and their country. Berlin 1912, 2nd edition Stuttgart 1922.
  • Textbook of the History of Romania. Sibiu 1921.
  • The history of our people. Images from the past and present of Germans in Romania. Sibiu 1926.
  • On the development and nature of the Transylvanian-Saxon peasantry. In: Klingsor 4, 1927, pp. 9-19, 64-69, 89-96, 148-155.
  • What is revelation Call to people of our time to reflect on the true reason for life. Sibiu 1931.
  • Change of the historical Main tasks of our people in the course of their development and their adaptation to it. In: Siebenbürgische Vierteljahresschrift 55, 1932, pp. 286–299.
  • Development of peoples under Christianity. In: Deutsche Theologie 1935, pp. 340–354, 380–400.
  • Calling and election. An exegetical study. ZSTh 24, 1955, pp. 38-71.
  • Historical effectiveness of the Gospel in its Lutheran understanding. Two essays. Stuttgart 1956.
  • The historical Roots of the impunity of the Protestant Church of Transylvania. In: For legal and settlement history. the Transylvanian Saxony. Transylvanian Archive, Vol. 8, Cologne / Vienna 1971, pp. 1–36.
  • Sermons. Sibiu 1993.
  • Memories, writings on the Transylvanian regional studies. Cologne / Weimar / Bucharest 1993.

medal

  • Ordinul Steaua Republicii Populare Române, Cl. II (1964) (Order Star of the People's Republic of Romania, Second Class)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ He gave himself the suffix Langenthal due to his place of birth.
  2. ↑ "Young Life", 1/2012, p. 13
  3. ↑ http://freelex.wolterskluwer.ro/DocumentView.aspx?DocumentId=20351
personal data
SURNAME Müller-Langenthal, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Protestant bishop and historian in Transylvania
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Langenthal
DATE OF DEATH 1st February 1969
Place of death Sibiu