Johann Gottfried Misler (theologian)

Johann Gottfried Misler on an engraving from 1752 (engraved by Christian Fritzsch )

Johann Gottfried Misler (born January 11, 1679 in Worms , † March 28, 1748 in Hamburg ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian .

Life

Misler was the son of the theologian and pedagogue Johann Hartmann Misler (1642-1698) and his wife Anna Kunigunde Rühl (1646-1700), daughter of Worms Stättmeisters , born Johannes Rühl (1605-1673) in Worms, where his father then rector of the Municipal Latin School was.

After his education studying Misler theology and was on January 20, 1706 Chaplain in Swedish Gyldensternschen Infantry - Regiment . After three years, on September 6, 1709, Misler was appointed pastor at Sankt Martini in Lesum and again three years later, on January 22, 1713, as the deacon of the main church Sankt Nikolai in Hamburg. He took up this office on March 22, 1713 and later became archdeacon . In 1743 he also became the oldest member and thus President of the Ministry in Hamburg. Misler died in Hamburg in 1748 at the age of 69.

family

On February 3, 1711 he married Anna Catharina Matthaei (1693–1750), daughter of the theologian Martin Matthaei (1666–1728). His children were:

1. John Martin (1713-1793), the cathedral vicar , unmarried
2. Elisabeth (1716–1795) ⚭ 1741 Hieronymus Schramm (1701–1751), merchant
3. Anna Maria (1718–1760) ⚭ 1749 Jacob Krohn (1711–1775), merchant and senator
4. Johann Gottfried (1720–1789), senior secretary ⚭ 1754 Maria Schramm (1734–1777), daughter of the first marriage of the merchant Hieronymus Schramm (1701–1751), and thus stepdaughter of her sister-in-law Elisabeth Misler
5. Johann Hartmann (1724–1807), District Court Actuary ⚭ 1756 Catharina Dorothea Hinsche (1728–1808), daughter of Senator Nicolaus Hinsche (1689–1765)

literature

• Hamburg reports of the latest learned things. Seventeenth Tomus to the year 1748 . Hamburg 1748, p. 246–247 ( digitized on the pages of the Lower Saxony State and University Library Göttingen ).
• Hans Schröder : Misler (Johann Gottfried I.) . In: Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present . tape 5 , no. 2608 . Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg 1870 ( facsimile on the pages of the State and University Library Hamburg - mentioned in the article about his son of the same name).
• Bernhard Koerner (ed.): German gender book . tape 27 . Starke, Görlitz 1914, p. 105–111 (also Hamburg Gender Book. Volume 5.).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hans Schröder : Misler (Johann Hartmann) . In: Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present . tape 5 , no. 2610 . Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg 1870 ( facsimile on the pages of the Hamburg State and University Library). Facsimile ( memento of the original dated November 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.