Johann Michael Mehlig

Johann Michael Mehlig (born January 1, 1716 in Weisdrup near Dresden, † November 4, 1777 in Chemnitz ) was a German Lutheran theologian .

Life

Mehlig attended the Dresden Annenschule and / or the grammar school in Freiberg , studied theology at the University of Leipzig and at the University of Wittenberg since 1736 . At the latter university he acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy in 1743 . In the same year he took up a catechist position at St. Peterskirche in Leipzig , in 1746 he became a substitute for the pastor in Chemnitz and in 1772 he took over the position of the first pastor and superintendent of Chemnitz.

Selection of works

• Treatise on Genes. I. 31 ... 1754
• Holy talk of terrible earthquakes. Chemnitz 1756
• Historical church and heretic lexicon, compiled from the best writers. Chemnitz 1758
• Theological treatise on spiritual wickedness ... 1763
• Examining remarks on Mr. DWA Teiller's concept of the Christian faith in 4 parts. With a preface by D. Joh. Friedr. Gühling's Superint. to Chemnitz. Chemnitz 1764
• The first and worst book, or historically critical treatise, of the blasphemous religious writing De tribus impostoribus. Chemnitz 1764
• Brief church history A. and N. Testaments up to the year 1766; together with the attached time calculation tables. Chemnitz 1767
• The recently raised and incorrectly answered question: Have all those who fainted at the previous theuration been condemned? are all who have escaped hunger and death up to now, or who have become pure through theuration, pious? answered anew in writing. Chemnitz 1773

Footnotes

1. ↑ Johann Michael Mehlig's place of birth is usually given in the literature of the 18th and 19th centuries as Weisdrup near Dresden , as in Meusel and Rotermund zum Jöcher. The place name is also mentioned in a contemporary description of the acts of war that took place around Dresden in 1761 ( The newly opened historical picture room Vierzehender Part / In which general world history from 1761 to 1765, under Emperor FRANZ I, […] described [...] Seitz, Nuremberg 1766, p. 42 ( digitized in Google book search). ): "After the tattoo , the Prussians were willing to abolish the outposts at Wilsdruf , Kesselsdorf , Bennerich , Weisdrup and Niederwartha [...]." The context suggests Weistropp .
2. ^ ^{A b} Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : continuation and additions to Christian Gottlieb Jöchers general scholarly lexico . Ed .: Johann Christoph Adelung . tape 4 . Heyse, Bremen 1813, Sp. 1193 f . ( Digitized in the Google book search).
3. ^ Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800 . tape 9 . Fleischer, Leipzig 1809, p. 16 ( digitized version in Google book search).

literature

• Johann Georg Meusel: Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Gerhard Fleischer the Younger, Leipzig, 1809, Vol. 9, p. 16.
• Ulrich Löffler: Lisbon's fall - Europe's horror: The interpretation of the Lisbon earthquake in German-speaking Protestantism of the 18th century. Walter de Gruyter, 1999, ISBN 3-11-015816-7 , pp. 479-482.