Heinrich Moller

Heinrich Moller (also Henricus Möller or Henrich Müller ; born April 12, 1530 in Hamburg ; † November 26, 1589 ibid) was a German Protestant theologian.

Life

Heinrich was born as a child of Hamburg councilor Joachim Moller the Elder and his wife Anna, the daughter of Hamburg councilor Joachim Nigel, as a member of the famous Hamburg Moller vom Hirsch family. After initial school education in his place of birth, he enrolled on June 14, 1546 at the University of Wittenberg . In doing so, he came into contact with Philipp Melanchthon , who guided him primarily in his preferred studies of oriental languages. The following year he matriculated at the University of Rostock . Back in Wittenberg, on February 24, 1551, he acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy, and on July 7, 1554, he was accepted into the faculty of the philosophical faculty. However, since he could not find a permanent position as a professor, in May 1559 he took over a position as court master with the Count of Nassau. At Melanchthon's efforts, after Paul Eber had resigned his professorship for Hebrew at the philosophical faculty, Moller was appointed professor of the Hebrew language at the University of Wittenberg in 1560 and was obliged to “read with the scriptures” due to a higher salary. At the philosophical faculty he took over the deanery in 1562 and held the rectorate of the academy in 1573, and in 1565 the equivalent vice-rectorate. He also became assessor at the Wittenberg consistory in 1573.

Moller was drawn to theological studies, is listed as a theologian as early as 1561 and read about the minor prophets from the original text of the Bible. After he was accepted into the theological faculty on December 14, 1569, the philosophical teaching position was transferred to the theological faculty. On May 11, 1570 he received his doctorate in theology together with Caspar Cruciger the Younger , Christoph Pezel , Johannes Bugenhagen the Younger , Friedrich Widebram and Nikolaus Selnecker . From now on, opportunities opened up for him at the then higher-valued faculty.

As in 1574 on the after Torgau the disputes between parliament convened Philippists and Gnesiolutheranern by the Torgau Articles denied Moller with other Philippists were resolved in favor of the latter, the signing. He was then imprisoned in Wittenberg, Torgau and Leipzig. And finally expelled from Saxony . On August 8, 1574 he went back to Hamburg and pursued not only theological but also medical studies. This enabled him to work as a doctor, which he did until he died from a stroke.

family

Moller married Margarethe Cordes in Hamburg in 1560. Children from marriage: We know of these:

1. To. Gebrecht Moller (~ December 5, 1561 in Wittenberg)
2. So. Heinrich Moller (~ February 7, 1563 in Wittenberg; † young)
3. So. Joachim Moller (~ April 24, 1564 in Wittenberg; † Danzig) immat. 1573 Uni. Wittenberg
4. So. Matthäus Moller (~ September 9, 1566 in Wittenberg) immat. 1573 Uni. Wittenberg, doctor in East Frisia
5. So. Johann Moller (~ November 18, 1567 in Wittenberg; † Emden) immat. 1573 Uni. Wittenberg, became a medic
6. So. Heinrich Moller (~ March 11, 1570 in Wittenberg; † November 28, 1640 in Herborn) immat. 1573 Uni. Wittenberg, became professor for literature in Herborn in 1611, married. with Catharina Hoen († January 23, 1669 in Herborn), the daughter of Andreas Jacob Hoen and Margarethe Stoever
7. So. Eberhard Moller (~ March 6, 1571 in Wittenberg; † drowned outside Bremen) immat. 1573 Uni. Wittenberg
8. Sun. Theoderich Moller (~ August 26, 1572 in Wittenberg) immat. 1573 Uni. Wittenberg
9. So. Osajas (Josias) Moller (~ October 8, 1574 in Wittenberg; † 1589 in Hamburg)
10. So. Dietrich Moller († in La Rochelle, young)
11. To. Margaretha Moller († December 1615 in Hamburg) married. July 20, 1601 in Hamburg with the councilor and mayor of Hamburg Joachim Clan (also: Claen Klaen; 1566–1632)

literature

• Christian Ziegra : Nicolaus Wilckens Hamburg Temple of Honor. CS Schröder, Hamburg, 1770, p. 547 ( online )
• Möller, Heinrich a Doctor. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 21, Leipzig 1739, column 781 f.
• Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : General scholarly lexicon . Vol. 3, Col. 571 ( online )
• L. u .:  Moller, Heinrich von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, p. 758 f.
• Hans Schröder , Karl Rudolf Wilhelm Klose : Lexicon of the Hamburg writers up to the present. W. Mauke & Sons, Hamburg, 1870, vol. 5, p. 351 ff.
• Walter Friedensburg : History of the University of Wittenberg. Max Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1917
• Heinz Kathe : The Wittenberg Philosophical Faculty 1502–1817 (= Central German Research. Volume 117). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-412-04402-4 .
• Helmar Junghans: Directory of the rectors, vice-rectors, deans, professors and castle church preachers of Leucorea from the summer semester 1536 to the winter semester 1574/75. In: Irene Dingel , Günther Wartenberg : Georg Major (1502–1574) - A theologian of the Wittenberg Reformation. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-374-02332-0
• Sünje Prühlen: Heinrich Moller: An innocent Hamburg citizen or a suspicious theology professor? In: Herman J. Selderhuis, Markus Wriedt: Denomination, migration and elite education. Studies on theological training in the 16th century. Brill, Leiden & Boston, 2007, ISBN 9789004163140 , pp. 255-287
• Armin Koehnle, Beate Kusche: Book of Professors of the Theological Faculty of the University of Wittenberg 1502 to 1815/17. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig, 2016, ISBN 978-3-374-04302-6 , pp. 153–155

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See the entry of Heinrich Moller's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal