Johannes Meelführer

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Johannes Meelführer

Johannes Meelführer (also: Mehlführer ; * December 25, 1570 in Kulmbach ; † December 3, 1640 in Ansbach ) was a German Protestant theologian , philologist , educator and writer .

Life

Born the son of a pot maker, Meelführer was initially destined for his father's craft. It was only after he had been found to be extraordinarily talented that he was able to attend the Gymnasium in Hof in 1586 and at the University of Wittenberg in 1592 . When he had finished his studies in 1597 with the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy, he became a private tutor to the sons of Aegidius Hunnius . This encouraged him to give lectures on theological and philosophical disciplines as well as on the Hebrew language.

Since he ran this successfully, he was accepted as an adjunct in the philosophical faculty of the Wittenberg University in 1599. He turned down various appointments that arose as a result. In 1600 he went to Kulmbach as a substitute for superintendent Johann Streitberger , in 1602 he was appointed by Georg Friedrich I of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Kulmbach as an assessor in the consistory and as a preacher in Ansbach . In 1611 he became a grammar school professor and abbot in Heilsbronn , where he worked successfully for twenty years.

When the monastery was sacked by the troops of Johann t'Serclaes von Tilly in 1631 during the Thirty Years War , he fled to Nuremberg . Here he was from October 1632 to January 1633 in the service of the widowed Margravine Sophie von Braunschweig-Lüneburg (1563–1639). In 1634 he became a preacher and in 1636 city pastor and consistorial assessor in Ansbach, which he remained until the end of his life.

As a writer he has dealt with German proverbs and proverbial idioms. However, his Hebrew grammar textbooks have been sustainable. His work Monumenta antiquitatis, quae in templo monasterii Heilsbronnensis passim obvia cernuntur remained unpublished.

Johannes Meelführer was married to Elisabeth Gramann from Kulmbach (1575–1645) with whom he had several children. Their son Christoph Meelführer (1608–1640) was a Protestant pastor and church musician, as was his older brother Johann Burkhard Meelführer (also written as Mehlführer) (1603–1637), who was the pastor's daughter Anne Margaretha Cöler (1607–1652) (also known as Koehler written) married. The descendants from the first marriage were among others the grandparents of the royal Prussian personal physician Georg Ernst Stahl . Second marriage to Wolf Heinrich Priester. Her first husband was a pastor, the second a chaplain.

Selection of works

  1. Quaestiones et responsiones physicae Aristotelicae. Wittenberg 1600
  2. Compendiosa institutio grammaticae hebraeae. Ansbach 1607, Jena 1623, Nuremberg 1626
  3. Clavis linguae sacrae seu hebraeae. Nuremberg, 1598, 1628
  4. Vindiciae evangelicae. Nuremberg 1615-1619,
  5. Postilla evangelico-proverbialis, that is: simple-minded, short Hauss-sermon about all Evangelia throughout the year alone, apart from the proverbs of Solomon. Nuremberg, 1634
  6. Grammaticae Hebraeae compendiosa institutio. Certis canonibus comprehensa. et praxi exemplorum fideliter illustrata. Ansbach 1607

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation Bruno Langner: Evangelical painting epitaphs in Franconia. A contribution to the religious image in the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Würzburg (2007) p. 301 (PDF; 4.2 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Meelführer, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mehlführer, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1570
PLACE OF BIRTH Kulmbach
DATE OF DEATH December 3, 1640
Place of death Ansbach