Johann Jacob von Melle

Johann Jacob von Melle, copper engraving from 1750

Johann Jacob von Melle (born January 24, 1721 in Lübeck ; † June 11, 1752 ibid) was a German theologian and Poeta laureatus .

Live and act

Von Melle came from a family that had come from Westphalia to Lübeck at the end of the Middle Ages and had produced important pastors here for several generations. His grandfather was the senior pastor, senior of the Ministerium and polymath Jacob von Melle , and his father Samuel Gerhard von Melle was archdeacon (second pastor) of St. Aegidien .

After visiting the Katharineum , he studied theology at the University of Jena and received his master's degree here in 1744 . On February 4, 1745 he was elected archdeacon at St. Jakobi zu Lübeck and held this office until his death.

Since his studies he was a member of the German Society in Jena and from 1751 one of the first members of the Göttingen learned society . He turned down a call for a theological professorship at the University of Göttingen in 1751 as successor to Christian Kortholt .

Since 1746 he was married to Engel Dorothee, a daughter of the Travemünde pastor Johann Hermann Siricius . Of the couple's children, Johann Hermann (1750–1815) later worked as a teacher and librarian in Lübeck.

Fonts

• Examples are the most excellent means by which poets make man fiery: Poetic speech Bey repeated celebration of the foundation day of the Jenaische High School in 1743. held on February 9th in the presence of a highly commendable academy Bey public meeting of the German Society in Jena. Jena: Schill 1743
• Attempt in the works of eloquence consisting of eight speeches on various subjects that were held in the German Society in Jena. 1748
• Encouragement to believe and have a good conscience: formulated in eight speeches on texts of the Holy Scriptures. Lübeck: Böckmann 1750

Digitized copy of the copy from the University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt

• Lübeckisches Nineveh, or declaration of the prophet Jonas: publicly presented to awaken repentance and to promote godliness. Lübeck: Schmidt 1751

literature

• Ernst Leberecht Semper : The German Society in Jena paid its most devoted congratulations to its full member to the noble and well-to-do Mr. M. Johann Jacob von Melle from Lübeck Bey, whose departure from here in April of the 1744th year. Jena 1744 ( VD18 digitized version, Göttingen University Library).
• Jacob Wilhelm Balufus: The Teutsche Gesellschaft in Jena paid Bey the most devoted congratulations to the honorable member of the Melle and Siricischen marriage that had been happily completed in Lübeck. Jena 1746 ( VD18_Digitalisat , Göttingen University Library).
• Kaspar Georg Sellschopp: That the equality of class, of years and minds, makes a marriage happy, is with the Melle and Siricischen wedding celebrations, which is the 20th day of the Brachmon. This 1746th year was happily performed in Lübek, presented in a song poem, and performed musically. Lübeck: Willer 1746 ( VD18 digitized , Göttingen University Library).
• Johann Gottlob Wilhelm Dunkel: Historical-critical news from deceased scholars ... I / 1, Cöthen: Cörnerische Buchhandluhng 1753, p. 266 f.