Heinrich Müller (theologian, 1759)

Heinrich Müller , also Johann Friedrich Müller , (born February 25, 1759 in Jörl , † February 9, 1814 in Kiel ) was a German theologian.

Life

He attended the Latin school in Husum, studied theology in Kiel from 1779, was the first teaching position to be a catechist at the teachers' seminar opened on July 8, 1781, the first director of which was Johann Andreas Cramer (1723–1788), professor of theology in Kiel since 1774, was. In 1785 Müller passed the theological exam and in 1786 became a deacon at St. Nikolai in Kiel . On October 20, 1786 he married Margarethe Dorothea Schetelig from Schönberg in Schönberg, who died in 1806.

In 1788, after Cramer's death, he became head of the teachers' college and associate professor of theology at the University of Kiel .

He was a moderate rationalist, enlightener and a good educator according to the Socratic method . His students (among them Peter Plett ) are said to have become extremely enthusiastic teachers. Around 1800 a discussion about right faith flourished, with its seminarians being accused of rationalism and disregard for baptism and the Lord's Supper.

Around 1800 the conservative Friedrich Karl Graf Reventlow became curator of the university and chief director of the teachers' college. In 1804 he gave Müller the choice of either being dismissed or declaring his resignation and resigning himself to a full professorship in philosophy (education, ethics). Müller chose to resign, took up his new office in 1805 and received the necessary Dr. phil. Here he gained a new reputation, so that in 1818 his students erected a memorial to him in the St. Jürgensfriedhof. During the time of its existence, the teachers' seminar had 722 students, 570 of whom took their exams in over 15 subjects after two years at the beginning and three years later.

literature

• Carsten Erich Carstens :  Müller, Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, p. 556 f.
• E. Clausnitzer: The teacher training in Kiel . In: Festschrift for the inauguration of the new building for the royal teachers' seminar in Kiel on March 27, 1914
• Johannes Grönhoff: The old Kiel teacher training college (1781-1823). A contribution to the history of intellectual and religious currents around 1800 . In: Schulblatt der Provinz Schleswig-Holstein , Vol. 72, 1924, No. 3, pp. 22-28 and No. 4, pp. 34-36.
• Matthias Wolfes :  Müller, Heinrich. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 29, Bautz, Nordhausen 2008, ISBN 978-3-88309-452-6 , Sp. 981-985.