Lorenz Möller (Rector)

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Lorenz Möller , also Latinized Laurentius Molitor (* in Dorpat ; † probably 1571 in Reval ) was a German Baltic Evangelical Lutheran theologian and educator.

Life

Almost nothing is known about Möller's origins and youth. He enrolled at the University of Rostock in June 1541 and went to the University of Wittenberg in June 1545 . Here he graduated with a master's degree .

In 1557 the Lübeck council appointed him as the successor to Petrus Vincentius as rector of the Katharineum . On November 20, 1559 he wrote a letter of recommendation to Philipp Melanchthon for Nicolaus Balhorn, presumably the son of Johann Balhorn the Elder , who went to study in Wittenberg. A letter from him to the master of the order Gotthard Kettler has been received from 1560 . In it he reported on astrological calculations and interceded for a relative who had suffered damage on forbidden shipping to Russia.

In 1559 he edited the Latin choir book Hymni et Sequentiae from the estate of Hermann Bonnus , which contains 77 Latin hymns and sequences for school use, partly edited by Bonnus in the spirit of the Reformation . The students of the Katharineum have been obliged to sing liturgical choirs in the main churches of the city since it was founded in 1531.

Möller resigned after a few years, probably in connection with the theological disputes about the Lübeck consensus formula 1560/61, in which the theology of the Gnesiolutherans dominated and as a result of which, as a pupil of Melanchthon, he was exposed to the danger of being attacked as a Philippist and cryptocalvinist . In his letter to Melanchthon of November 1559, "he was shaken by the dissension of the Lutherans" and reported foolish attacks. Probably Möller had ensured that Melanchthons to Friedrich III. (Palatinate) last report Iudicium de controversia Coenae Domini was printed immediately after publication in 1560 in Lübeck, namely by Balhorn.

His further life is unclear. Leonid Arbusow said he had become Gotthard Kettler's secretary and councilor to the royal courtyard. However, this is due to a confusion with the chronicler Lorenz Müller (* around 1540 in Lünen ; † 1598 in Burtneck ).

It is more likely that he is Lorenz Möller, who testified as pastor at Reval Cathedral from 1564 and died before November 1571.

The later councilor and mayor of Lübeck Lorenz Möller was his son.

literature

  • Johann Henrich von Seelen : Athenae Lubecenses . Volume 4, Lübeck: Petrus Boeckmann 1722 ( digitized version), pp. 80-87
  • Jacob von Melle : Thorough message from the Kaiserl. freyen and the HR Reichs Stadt Lübeck , 1787, p. 356
  • Moller (Laurent.) , In: Continuation and additions to Christian Gottlieb Jöcher's general lexicon of scholars, in which writers of all classes are described according to their most distinguished living conditions and writings. Volume 4, Bremen: 1813, column 1949
  • Hugo Richard Paucker : Ehstland's clergy in orderly time and order. Lindfors Erben, Reval 1849 ( digitized version ), p. 55

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ↑ Album Academiae Vitebergensis from a. Ch. MDII usque ad a. MDCII. Leipzig 1841 p. 225
  3. ↑ Melnachthon online , accessed on October 6, 2018; Heinz Scheible and Walter Thüringer (arrangement): Melanchthon's correspondence: critical and commented complete edition. Regesten, Volume 8, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog 1995 ISBN 978-3-7728-1603-1 , No. 9138
  4. ^ Carl Schirren: Sources on the history of the fall of Livonian independence: From the Swedish Imperial Archives in Stockholm. Reval: Kluge 1864, p. 164 No. 485
  5. ↑ See the table of contents in von Seelen (lit.) and in Petra Sawidis: Hermann Bonnus. Superintendent of Lübeck (1504–1548). His church-political and organizational work and his practical-theological literature (= publications on the history of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck. Series B, vol. 20). Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1992, ISBN 3-7950-0458-6 , p. 383f
  6. ↑ See also Wolf-Dieter Hauschild : Church History Lübeck. Christianity and the bourgeoisie in nine centuries. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 1981 ISBN 3-7950-2500-1 , pp. 254f.
  7. ↑ Melanchthon online , accessed October 6, 2018
  8. ^ Erik A. de Boer: Philipp Melanchthon's Iudicium de controversia Coenae Domini (1559) to the Palatine Elector Frederick III. In: Reformation & Renaissance Review 17 (2015), pp. 244–265 doi : 10.1080 / 14622459.2015.1119441 , here p. 253, note 36
  9. ^ Leonid Arbusow: Livonia's clergy from the end of the 12th to the 16th century. Third addendum. In: Yearbook for Genealogy, Heraldry and Sphragistics 1911–1913 ( digitized version), pp. 1–432, here p. 143
  10. ^ Oskar Stavenhagen, Theodor Distel:  Müller, Laurentius . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, pp. 648-650.
  11. ↑ Müller (Möller), Lorenz (Laurentius von) , in: Carola L. Gottzmann, Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg from the Middle Ages to the present. Berlin: de Gruyter 2007 ISBN 978-3-11-091213-5 , p. 934
  12. ^ Leonis Arbusow: Livonia's clergy from the end of the 12th to the 16th century. Third addendum. In: Yearbook for Genealogy, Heraldry and Sphragistics 1911–1913 ( digitized version), pp. 1–432, here p. 143
predecessor Office successor
Petrus Vincentius Rector of the Katharineum in Lübeck
1557–1562 (?) 		Jacob Hesse
personal data
SURNAME Möller, Lorenz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Molitor, Laurentius; Moller, Laurentius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baltic German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and pedagogue
DATE OF BIRTH 16th Century
PLACE OF BIRTH Dorpat
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: 1571
Place of death Reval