Heinrich Müller (theologian, 1631)

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Heinrich Müller, engraving by Philipp Kilian (1672)
Heinrich Müller, engraving by Johann Martin Bernigeroth after Philipp Kilian

Heinrich Müller (born October 18, 1631 in Lübeck , † September 13, July / 23 September 1675 greg. In Rostock ) was a German author of edification , Protestant hymn poet and Lutheran theologian at the University of Rostock .

Life

Heinrich Müller was born into a family originally from Rostock. His father was the citizen, merchant and trader, also the church leader of St. Marien and Sechzehnmann in Rostock Peter Müller and his mother Ilsabe, was the daughter of Matthäus Stubbe and his wife Ilsabe Schmied. They fled to Lübeck during the war. Heinrich Müller attended the city school in Rostock and in 1647, on the advice of Johann Quistorp the Elder, moved to the University of Greifswald . In 1650 he returned to Rostock at the request of his parents and studied at the University of Rostock with Professors Caspar Mauritius and August Varenius .

With the dean of the Philosophical Faculty, Johannes Corfinius , he acquired the academic degree of a master’s degree in 1651 and was also able to hold his first lectures. He traveled in the same year to Danzig to Johann Botsack , then to Königsberg (Prussia) to Celestyn Myślenta and Christian Dreier . He also visited Leipzig , Wittenberg , Lübeck , Lüneburg , Braunschweig , Wolfenbüttel , Helmstedt and Halle (Saale) , where he made acquaintance with important theologians.

In 1652 he became archdeacon at St. Marien in Rostock , in 1659 he was appointed professor of the Greek language, in 1660 he received his doctorate in theology and after Caspar Mauritius was appointed to Hamburg in 1662, he took over his position as professor of theology and connected with it he became pastor of St. Mary's. After the death of Johann Kentzler, he took over the superintendent of the St. Marienkirche.

Heinrich Müller was regarded as dogmatic orthodox and, following the tradition of Martin Luther, came out against church grievances. He was a representative of the internalization of Christianity; He called baptismal font, pulpit, confessional and altar "church idols ": "Also, today's Christianity four silent Church idols that they followeth, the Tauffstein , Predigstul , Beichtstul , altar ; She is comforted by her external Christianity, that she has been baptized, has heard God's word, goes to confession, receives the evening meal, but she denies the inner strength of Christianity. ”His Passion Sermons were widespread and probably formed one of the textual models for Picander's newly composed parts of the St. Matthew Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach , which represent a third level of text in addition to the Bible text and the chorale texts.

Heinrich Müller worked as a writer of edification and wrote a collection of cantatas, which were published under the titles Spiritual Soul Music and Heavenly Love Flame . In his publication Geistliche Erquickungsstunden (1664–1666) he used the term Übermensch in the German language for the first time in the sense of a “man of God”. His oeuvre comprises a total of nine German and ten Latin titles.

family

On January 24, 1654 Heinrich Müller married Magaretha Elisabeth, the daughter of the citizen and church leader in the St. Marienkirche Michael Sibrand. The marriage resulted in five sons and one daughter. Peter Müller, Christian Bernhard Müller and their daughter Catarina Elisabeth Müller died at an early age. Johann Michael Müller, Heinrich Müller and Caspar Matthäus Müller survived the father .

Selection of works

  • The heavenly love kiss
  • The unwanted marriage
  • Tears and source of comfort
  • The divine love flame
  • The soul music
  • The cross school
  • The altar of thanks

A selection of his spiritual refreshment lessons was published again and again, for example by Johann Georg Rußwurm in 1822 , and was published in 1938 in a selection by Gottfried Holtz :

  • Faith is a whole new meaning far beyond the five senses: A selection from Heinrich Müller's “Spiritual Refreshment Hours”. Edited by Gottfried Holtz, Furche-Verlag, Berlin 1938 (Furche-Bücherei 47)

literature

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Heinrich Müller: Apostolische Schluß-Kett und Krafft-Kern, Or thorough exposition of the usual Sunday and feast day epistles: In which not only the letter explains the meaning of the spirit, but also the strengthening of faith and improvement of life, out of the Krafft words of the basic languages ​​is drawn out, presented . Balthasar Christoph Wust, Frankfurt am Main, 5th edition 1701.

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personal data
SURNAME Müller, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran clergyman, theologian and hymn poet
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1631
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1675
Place of death Rostock