Johann Gerhard Meuschen
Johann Gerhard Meuschen (born May 4, 1680 in Osnabrück , † December 15, 1743 in Coburg ) was a German Lutheran theologian and clergyman .
Life
Meuschen was born as the son of the pastor at the Katharinenkirche in Osnabrück, Johann Conrad Meuschen. He attended the Osnabrück high school and went to the University of Jena around 1699 . Here he devoted himself in particular to the study of theology, but also to the study of oriental languages, history, mathematics, physiology, anatomy, natural law and other subjects. On October 5, 1702, he received his master's degree in Jena and a job offer at the Faculty of Philosophy. Nevertheless, he went to the University of Leipzig for further training .
Meuschen received a call to the Copenhagen Knight Academy from Leipzig . He wanted to follow this call, but had difficulties on the trip and finally accepted the position as assessor offered by the state minister and university curator Magnus von Wedderkop and the appointment as associate professor at the Philosophical Faculty of Kiel University . In 1704, however, he followed a call back to his hometown, where he served as a preacher, like his father, at the Katharinenkirche. At first he turned down various offers, for example as professor of theology and superintendent in Dortmund. However, he had stressful arguments with the Jesuits , which possibly prompted him to go to The Hague in 1707 . The information about it varies. Possibly he also moved up to the position of First Preacher in Osnabrück in 1713.
Meuschen followed a call from Count Johann Reinhard III in 1716 . von Hanau-Lichtenberg as senior court preacher and consistorial councilor. In 1720 he also became general superintendent in Hanau-Lichtenberg. He declined a professorship at the University of Giessen and the general superintendent in Waldeck . Meuschen was already in consultation with Duke Johann Wilhelm von Sachsen-Eisenach at this time and was awarded the title of Councilor of Church by him in 1723 . In the same year he received an appointment as a church councilor and general superintendent from Saxe-Coburg to Coburg . He also became professor of theology and scholarch at the Casimirianum .
Meuschen was appointed a foreign member of the Electoral Brandenburg Society of Sciences on November 8, 1719 . The diplomat Friedrich Christian Meuschen was his son. He owned an estate in Moravia as a retirement home.
Works
- Nugae venales Rullenses or Rullische grimaces, opposed to an alleged monastic transubstantiation miracle , Lippstadt 1707 (under the pseudonym Parrhasius Alethes ).
- The Glorious End of the Faithful , Bruin, Amsterdam 1710.
- Abominations of the Jesuit bossiness and of the whole Pabstuhms , Bryn, Amsterdam 1711.
- Caeremonialia Electionis Et Coronationis Pontificis Romani , Sande, Frankfurt am Main 1732.
- Vitae Summorum Dignitate Et Eruditione Virorum , 4 volumes, Steinmarck, Coburg 1735–1741.
literature
- Heinrich Döring : The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , Volume 2, Wagner, Neustadt an der Orla 1832, pp. 490–495.
- Jakob Franck , lu: Meuschen, Johann Gerhard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, p. 538 f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Contradiction between the information in the ADB and Döring.
- ↑ Meuschen's member entry on the website of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (accessed December 19, 2018).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meuschen, Johann Gerhard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Alethes, Parrhasius (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Lutheran theologian and clergyman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 4, 1680 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Osnabrück |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 15, 1743 |
| Place of death | Coburg |