Johann Friedrich Mieg (pastor)

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Johann Friedrich Mieg (rarely also Johann Friederich Mieg ; born May 25, 1744 in Lingen ; † December 14, 1819 in Heidelberg ) was a German Reformed preacher , Freemason and Illuminate .

Life

Mieg came from a wide area, which originally from Strasbourg family Mieg . He was the son of theology professor Johann Kasimir Mieg and grandson of theology professor Ludwig Christian Mieg . After attending the Latin school in Lingen , he studied philosophy and theology at the University of Herborn and from 1765 at the University of Groningen . He was then briefly pastor of Oldersum in 1767 and then until 1776 Dutch legation preacher in Vienna . In 1773 he was accepted into the Masonic lodge To the Three Eagles , in which he obtained the master's degree. In Vienna he was active in Enlightenment circles .

Mieg took in 1775 a reputation as an extraordinary Electoral Palatinate Churches of Heidelberg. There he was also the third pastor at the Heiliggeistkirche . In 1776 he received an honorary doctorate ( Dr. theol. Hc ) from Groningen University . With David Christoph Seybold , he published the weekly Der Rheinische Viewer from 1778 . In 1778 he was promoted to first pastor at the Heiliggeistkirche. Mieg was one of the leading representatives of the Illuminati Order in the Electoral Palatinate, after which he was placed under surveillance in June 1791 by decree of Elector Karl Theodor on suspicion of belonging to a secret society. He was a novice from May 1781, became Minerval in June 1781 and finally in 1782 Provincial of the Order. In 1795 he was promoted to the full Electoral Palatinate Council of Churches. He held the position of church councilor until 1802 and that of preacher until 1806. At times he was the landowner in Guntersblum .

From 1775 Mieg was a member of the Haarlemer Maatschappij der Wetenschappen (Haarlem Society of Sciences), from 1776 a member of the Electoral Palatinate German Society and from 1788 of the Academy of Charitable Sciences in Erfurt .

Works (selection)

  • Epitaphia Palatino-Electoralia , 1767.
  • Justice, the ornament of a people: A sermon of penance , Vienna 1770.
  • Sermon on Proverbs of Solomon. 14, 34 , Vienna 1770.
  • Guest sermon about 2 Petr. III. 14. 15. Frankfurt am Main 1775.
  • Specimen Theologicum De Mechanismo In Causa Religionis Speciatim In Institutionibus Caute Vitando , Greaffer, Leipzig 1776.
  • with Johann Ulrich: The latest religious constitution and religious disputes of the Reformed in the Lower Palatinate , Weygand, Leipzig 1780.
  • with Dominik Gottlieb Theophil Heddäus: The new hymn book of the Reformed Congregation of the Electoral Palatinate , Heidelberg 1785.
  • Heidelberg cremated 100 years ago due to the war , Heidelberg 1793.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Fuchs:  Mieg (family). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , pp. 467-469 ( digitized version ).
  2. ^ Heinz Buss: Album Discipulorum Scholae Lingensis - the student directory of the Lingen Latin School (1689–1831) . Lingen 2020, p. 78 .
personal data
SURNAME Mieg, Johann Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mieg, Johann Friederich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Reformed preacher, Freemason and Illuminate
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1744
PLACE OF BIRTH Lingen
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1819
Place of death Heidelberg