Moritz Meurer (theologian)

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Moritz Meurer (born August 3, 1806 in Pretzsch (Elbe) , † May 10, 1877 in Callenberg ) was a German Lutheran theologian and church historian.

Life

The son of the judicial officer Gottlob Friedrich Meurer (1766–1836) and Johanna Dorothea Sophia (née Küchler) spent his childhood in Wermsdorf from 1811 , where he and his parents experienced the Wars of Liberation . He then attended the Princely School in Grimma in 1819 and devoted himself to studying theology at the University of Leipzig from 1825 to 1828 . In Leipzig he assisted August Hahn on April 4, 1827 in his habilitation disputation on the essence of rationalism ( de rationalismi qui dictur vera indole ). He owed some suggestions to Hahn. After passing the candidate examination, he worked for four years as the tutor of superintendent Heinrich Leonhard Heubner in Wittenberg .

In Wittenberg, among others, his brother-in-law Heinrich Eduard Schmieder aroused a keen interest in the history of the Reformation, which was to accompany him for life. After he had to recover at home for a long time after an illness, he found a job as an interim teacher in the seminary in Weißenfels . But soon he was called back to Saxony, where in 1834 he took over a diaconate in Waldenburg and pastorate in Swabia (today OT Waldenburg). In 1834 he was promoted to archdeaconate in Waldenburg, became a pastor in Callenberg in 1841 and remained loyal to the local community until the end of his life.

Moritz Meurer was the brother of the pharmacologist Friedrich Meurer (1792–1866).

Act

Meurer, who had twice participated as an assistant in the church visitation of the ephorias of the Saxon regional church, was also a member of the regional synod, in 1871 and 1876, a member of parliament that dealt with the question of an excerpt from the Bible. From 1840 to 1847 he had published a church parish journal “The Pilgrim from Saxony”, and in 1861 took over the editing of the Saxon Church and School Journal, at that time the only organ of the regional church, which he accompanied in this function for twelve years. He had also found time to do literary work. His important work is Luther's Life from the Sources told, which was published in a trilogy of three volumes from 1845 to 1846 by the Justus Naumann publishing house in Leipzig and was later published as a single volume in the second (1852) and third (1870) editions.

An English translation of the first edition was printed in New York in 1848, and this was also translated into Finnish. He also wrote the life stories of Philipp Melanchthon , Johannes Bugenhagen , Katharina von Bora , Nikolaus Hausmann and Friedrich Myconius . In 1855 he directed the new building of the church in Callenberg and put on exhibitions on church art history. In 1850 he was a co-founder of the Dresden Pastoral Conference, was a participant in the Meissner Conference founded in 1859 and received the Knight's Cross of the Saxon Order of Merit on April 12, 1875 . The theological faculty of the Leipzig University awarded him an honorary licentiate in 1855.

family

Meurer was married twice. In 1834 he married Friederike Charlotte Petzold (1808-April 1848) in Wittenberg. His second marriage was in 1852 with Wilhelmine Auguste Hartenstein (* 1822). It is known of his children:

  • Friederike Christiane Bathoni (* and † 1835)
  • Johanne Friederike Theodora (* 1836)
  • Gottlob Friedrich (* 1838)
  • Gottlob Moritz (born April 9, 1839 in Waldenburg; † November 3, 1916 Dresden), painter
  • Gottlob Siegfried (born September 8, 1840 in Waldenburg; † May 4, 1926 in Dresden), engineer and factory owner
  • Anna Regina (* and † 1841)
  • Anna Renate (1842–1936)
  • Gottlob Coelestin (1844-1916), merchant
  • Gottlob Reinhard (1845–1893), gardener owner
  • Antonie Elisabeth (* 1846)
  • Dorothee (* and † 1848)

Works

Meurer's oeuvre includes, in addition to some sermons, individual articles in Herzog's Realencyklopädie, essays in the Evangelical Church newspaper, in the Christian art paper, in the scientific supplement of the Leipziger Zeitung and other journals. There are also the following published books:

  • Moses the servant of God. Leipzig 1836 ( online )
  • The day at Schmalkalden and the articles from Schmalkalden. Leipzig 1837 ( online )
  • Luther's life told from the sources. 3rd vol. Leipzig 1845–1846, (English as The life of Martin Luther: related from original authorities ) New York 1848 ( online ), 2nd ed. Leipzig 1852 ( online ), 3rd ed. Leipzig 1870 came out.
  • Luther as the jubilee preacher. Leipzig 1839
  • Martin Luther's last days of life, death and burial. Leipzig 1846
  • Luther's life for Christian readers in general. Leipzig 1850, 1861 ( online )
  • Katharina Luther, b. from Bora. 1st edition 1854 ( online ), 2nd edition 1873
  • The St. Katharinenkirche zu Callenberg: after its new building completed in 1859. Leipzig 1859
  • Philipp Melanchthon's life: generally told from the sources for Christian readers. 1st edition 1860, 2nd edition 1869
  • The life of the ancestors of the Lutheran Church. 4th vol. 1st ed. 1861–1864, 3rd vol. 1863 ( online ), 2nd ed. 2nd vol. 1st department 1869 ( online ), 2nd volume 2nd department 1869 ( online )
  • Johann Bugenhagen. 2nd volume; Vol. 2, 2, 1862
  • Nikolaus Hausmann. 3rd vol.
  • Friedrich Myconius. 4th vol.
  • The altar decoration, a contribution to the vestments of the Evangelical Church. Leipzig 1867
  • Report on the exhibition of church art and trade products that took place in Hohenstein near Chemnitz in 1863. Leipzig 1864
  • The church building from the point of view and according to the custom of the Evangelical Lutheran Church from 1877.

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personal data
SURNAME Meurer, Moritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian and church historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH Pretzsch (Elbe)
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1877
Place of death Callenberg