Johann Heinrich Master

Johann Heinrich Meister (born February 6, 1700 in Stein am Rhein , † July 27, 1781 in Küssnacht ) was a Swiss Protestant theologian and clergyman .

Life

Meister was born the son of a deacon and studied at the University of Zurich . He received his ordination in 1719 and subsequently worked as a pastor and tutor in the canton of Bern . From 1721 he was active as a preacher in a French community in Bayreuth and moved to Schwabach in 1730 . He was appointed court preacher to Count Albrecht Wolfgang in 1733; In 1747 he took on another preaching position in a French congregation, this time in Erlangen . In 1757 he moved back to Switzerland to become pastor in Küssnacht. He stayed in this position until his death at the age of 81.

His son Jakob Heinrich Meister was a writer.

Works

• Lettre d'un vieux chrétien à M. Scheffmacher Jésuite sur les six obstacles au salut qu'il prétend qu'ils se trouvent dans la religion chrétienne (1728)
• Sermons sur divers textes (1737)
• Essai de catechisme familier (1740)
• Quatre lettres sur la discipline ecclésiastique entre M. Necker et M. le Maître (1740)
• Nouveau recueil de sermons (1741)
• Reflections on the manière de prêcher la plus simple et la plus naturelle (1745)
• Of the actions of God in the mind and will (1752)
• Le livre des enfants pour l'école française (1753)
• Jugement sur l'histoire de la religion chrétienne contre l'avant-propos de l'abrége de Fleury (Zurich 1768)

literature

• Heinrich Breitinger :  Master, Johann Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, p. 259.
• Erich Wenneker:  Master called Le Maitre, Johann Heinrich. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 24, Bautz, Nordhausen 2005, ISBN 3-88309-247-9 , Sp. 1092-1095.