Johann Siegmund Mörl

Johann Siegmund Mörl (also: Johann Sigmund Mörl ) (born March 3, 1710 in Nuremberg ; February 22, 1791 ibid) was a German Protestant clergyman.

Life

Johann Siegmund Mörl was the son of pastor Gustav Philipp Mörl (born December 26, 1673 in Nuremberg; † May 7, 1750 ibid), preacher in the Church of St. Egidien and later in the Church of St. Sebald and his wife Christiana Dorothea, daughter by Samuel Grünigk, hunting secretary from the Elector of Brandenburg. He still had three siblings, but they died in childhood.

He attended grammar school (today: Melanchthon grammar school ) in Nuremberg, the St. Lorenz Latin School and the Aegidianum . In 1726 he began studying theology at the University of Altdorf . During his studies he stayed with Christian Gottlieb Schwarz (1675–1751), professor of poetry, eloquence and history, whose lectures he also attended; He also attended the theological and humanistic lectures by Johann David Köhler , Eucharius Gottlieb Rink , Gustav Georg Zeltner , Jakob Wilhelm Feuerlein and Johann Balthasar Bernhold . He finished his studies after six years in 1732 and then made a trip down the Rhine , through the Netherlands , to Hamburg and then to Berlin . During the return journey he practiced the Hebrew language in Halle with Johann Heinrich Callenberg for six months .

After his return he devoted himself to private studies in the city ​​library , which his father presided over, and in the library of the doctor Gottfried Thomasius

In 1735 he received the position of deacon at the Church of St. Egidien and in 1741 at the St. Sebald Church. He resigned from these two offices in 1756 to take over the post of pastor at the Marienkirche, whereupon he became preacher and inspector at the Aegidianum in 1759. In this school he received the professorship of the Greek language in 1765. In 1770 he was appointed preacher at the St. Lorenz Church and in 1773 he became the first preacher to St. Sebald and Antistes of the Nuremberg Spiritual Ministry as well as librarian of the city library, inspector of the Latin school St. Sebald and professor of dogmatics and morals at the Aegidianum.

He was married to Maria Magdalena, daughter of Pastor Oswald from Lonnerstadt, and his only son Gustav Philipp Mörl (* 1750 - November 9, 1789) died as archdeacon in Hersbruck since 1749 . One of his daughters, Anna Magdalena Mörl, was married to the physician Philipp Ludwig Wittwer , who died in 1792; the other daughter Susana Maria Mörl (born September 28, 1757 - † February 6, 1804) was married to the lawyer Johann Christian Siebenkees and, after the divorce, was married to Johann Karl Osterhausen (March 8, 1804) 1765 - † November 2, 1839), physician in Nuremberg.

Trivia

Johann Siegmund Mörl was buried in the coffin that he kept for twenty years in his library, which contained 6,500 volumes.

Fonts (selection)

• Scholia philologica et critica ad selecta S. Codicis loca . Nuremberg 1737.
• Schediasma philologico-geographicum, in quo Jo. Harduini disquisitio de situ Paradisi terrestris examinatur . Nuremberg 1750.
• Oratio de meritis Norimbergensium in Geographiam, habitad. XVI. Octob. 1750, cum munus Professoris publ. Hebrew linguae ac geograph. in Auditorio Egidiano susciperet . Nuremberg 1750.
• A short draft of the entire doctrines of the Christian religion, presented to the congregation at St. Marien in Nuremberg . Nuremberg 1757.
• The advice of the heavenly father in the management and guidance of his children and especially the teacher was given at the sad funeral of Johann Jacob Pfitzer's The Holy Writ of Doctoris, well-deserved preacher at the main and parish church of St. Sebald. Nuremberg: Felsecker, 1759.
• Brief outline of all Christian duties . Nuremberg 1759.
• Short draft, according to which the happiness of true Christians in the congregation at St. Aegidien is to be presented, together with a prayer directed towards it. Nuremberg 1760.
• A short draft of the most distinguished pieces to be taken into consideration in child breeding, according to which these are to be dealt with in several weekly sermons in the church of St. Aegidien. Nuremberg 1761.
• Sermons on the Education of the Young. Nuremberg 1765.
• Jubilation sermon, which was held on September 1, 1768 on the day of Aegidii at the solemn commemoration of the inauguration of the rebuilt temple of Aegidia, which took place 50 years ago, and was made out on request according to the brief draft communicated from it . Nuremberg 1768.
• Collection of some well-known songs of the evangelical church, such as those of wrongdoers condemned to death, can be auditioned . Nuremberg 1768.
• Funeral sermon for preacher Andreas Rehberger; in his honorary memory of Dr. Dietelmair . Nuremberg 1772.

literature

• Johann Siegmund Mörl in Friedrich Schlichtegroll : Nekrolog for the year 1792 containing news of the life of strange Germans who died in that year . Gotha 1794. pp. 351-357.
• Niklaas Tulp: Dedicated to the priest jubilee of Sr. Reverend Preacher Mörl . Nuremberg 1785.
• Johann Siegmund Mörl in The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , 2nd volume. Neustadt an der Orla 1832.
• Johann Sigmund Mörl in Lexicon deceased Bavarian writer of the 18th and 19th centuries , 2nd volume, 1st part. Augsburg and Leipzig 1825. pp. 199 f.
• Johann Sigmund Mörl in Johann Christoph Döderlein : Life and Merit of Johann Sigmunds Mörl's foremost preacher, professor and librarian in Nuremberg . Nuremberg and Altdorf 1793.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Search for entries in the registry - REPERTORIVM ALBORVM AMICORVM. Retrieved July 7, 2020 . 
2. ^ Richard Dietz: Nürnberger Wappenbuch: Collection of coats of arms of different civil classes from Nuremberg and other places Ao. 1783 . epubli, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86931-949-0 , pp. 47 ( limited preview in Google Book search).