Gertraud Moller

Gertraud Moller (also: Gertrud Möller) (born October 13, 1641 in Koenigsberg ; † February 16, 1705 ibid) was a poet in the Nuremberg Pegnese Order of Flowers .

life and work

She was born as the daughter of the Königsberg professor of physics Michael Eifler and his wife Elisabeth. She was married since February 14, 1656 to Peter Moller (1628–1680), who also worked as a doctor and professor of medicine at the University of Königsberg . She had 15 children with him, but twelve of them died at a young age. After the death of her husband, she was financially supported by the noble Wallenrodt family and by the Prussian King Friedrich I , but had to continue to live in poor conditions.

She wrote poetry in her early teens. Her enthusiasm for poetry was probably aroused by Simon Dach , who was friends with her father and who congratulated her on her wedding with a poem. The connection to the President of the Flower Order, Sigmund von Birken , was established by the Königsberg poet Gottfried Zamehl . In September 1671 she was accepted as a member under the shepherd's pseudonym Mornille (an anagram of her surname) and made crowned poetess. In the Birkens estate archive, there are some letters from Ms. Moller in which she reports on hundreds of poems that she has written and on several books that have been prepared for printing. Today, however, only a few dozen printed occasional poems from her pen are known.

As one of the few poets of the Baroque era , Gertraud Moller published her own collections of poetry: in 1672 her Parnassus flowers or sacred and secular poems were published in Hamburg , and in 1692 another anthology in Königsberg, of which no more copies can be found today. Her ecclesiastical sonnets appeared in 1693, her ecclesiastical odes in 1696 .

literature

• Renate Jürgensen: Utile cum dulci. The heyday of the Pegnese Flower Order in Nuremberg from 1644 to 1744. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1994, ISBN 3-447-03578-1 .
• Renate Jürgensen: Melos conspirant singuli in unum. Repertorium bio-bibliographicum on the history of the Pegnese Flower Order in Nuremberg (1644–1744). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-447-05358-5 ( Contributions to books and libraries 50).

Web links

• Publications by and about Gertraud Moller in VD 17 .