Johann Heinrich Mueslin

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Johann Heinrich Müslin (born July 9, 1682 in Bern ; † August 1757 there ) was a Swiss pietist .

Life

Johann Heinrich Müslin was the son of Samuel Müslin and his wife Anna (née Frymann) and thus a descendant of the reformer Wolfgang Musculus . He learned the trade of glazier , but there is no more detailed information about his career. He developed into an important separatist pietist . In 1705 he settled in Schwarzenau in Hesse , which at the time was an asylum for religious noncormists , but returned to Bern after some time, probably for economic reasons.

Even a Quiet in the country , he rejected the Inspirationsgemeinschaft and the Moravian Brethren in handwritten, no longer preserved writings .

He was friends with Hieronymus Annoni , Gerhard Tersteegen , whose writings he distributed, and Charles Hector de Marsay ; he was also in connection with Abraham Kyburz , Nicolas Samuel de Treytorrens (1671–1728), Samuel Heinrich König and Johann Friedrich von Fleischbein (1700–1774).

Johann Heinrich Müslin remained unmarried throughout his life.

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Individual evidence

  1. Isabelle Noth: Ecstatic Pietism: the Inspirationsgemeinden and their prophet Ursula Meyer (1682-1743) . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2005, ISBN 978-3-525-55831-7 ( google.de [accessed on March 25, 2020]).
  2. Rudolf Dellsperger: Between Revelation and Experience: Collected Essays on Historical Theology . Theological Verlag Zurich, 2015, ISBN 978-3-290-17842-0 ( google.de [accessed on March 25, 2020]).
  3. Stefan Mario Huber: Educational for the youth: The religious pedagogical change of the image of the child in Swiss children's Bibles in the second half of the 18th century . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8470-0051-8 ( google.de [accessed on March 25, 2020]).
  4. ^ Treytorrens, Nicolas Samuel de. Retrieved March 25, 2020 .