Mucker (Koenigsberg)

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Mucker was the popular name of a Christian-Pietist sect in Königsberg . They called themselves theosophists .

history

Johann Wilhelm Ebel (1784–1861) became archdeacon of the old town church in Königsberg in 1816 and, together with the preacher Georg Heinrich Diestel , gathered a pietistic congregation around him from the end of the 1820s . Men and women from the leading families of Königsberg and the leading nobility also participated in this circle.

Ebel and Diestel took up the teachings of Johann Heinrich Schönherr (1771–1826). “The Schönherrsche idea of ​​the main and secondary natures, the light and dark natures, played a major role here. The main natures have to take care of the secondary natures. This is done by openly speaking and sharing their most secret thoughts, especially their sins. ”The Australian historian Christopher Clark characterizes the content of Ebel and Diestel's ideas as“ marriage counseling based on an eclectic practical theology ”.

Ebel and Diestel's activities sparked numerous rumors, including that the preachers encouraged licentiousness and extramarital sex, and that two young women died as a result of excessive excitement. In 1835 this led to an investigation by the President of the Province of Prussia, Theodor von Schön , and a protracted trial that was noticed throughout Germany, the Königsberg "Mucker Trial" (1835–1845), about which the press reported extensively and controversially. As a result, Ebel and Diestel were deposed of their posts in 1839 and 1842, respectively, lost their Prussian national cockade , and Diestel was also imprisoned in a correctional institution .

It may have been part of the movement that emigrated to Brazil . Jakobine Maurer , daughter of André Mentz and Maria Elisabeth Müller of German descent, founded a religious community in Sapiranga in 1870 , which was called Mucker and who worshiped Jakobine Maurer as the reincarnation of Christ . In 1874 the movement was disbanded by the Brazilian military and Jakobine Maurer was shot.

Fonts

  • Johann Wilhelm Ebel:
The wisdom from above. 1823.
The break of day. 1824.
The prosperous upbringing. 1825.
The what is true in Christianity. 1825.
Suggestion for understanding the scriptures. 1828.
The Apostolic Sermon. 1834.
The loyalty. 1835.
  • Georg Heinrich Diestel:
How the gospel is distorted. 1833.
Divorce and distinction. 1834.
Cause and effect. 1835.
State and Church. 1835.
  • Johann Wilhelm Ebel, Georg Heinrich Diestel: Understanding and reason in league with the revelation of God. 1837.

See also

literature

  • Olshausen: Doctrine and life of the Koenigsberg theosophist Joh. Heinr. Schönherr. Koenigsberg 1834.
  • Mucker. In: Christian Gotthold Neudecker: General Lexicon of Religions- u. Christian church history for all confessions: containing the doctrines, customs, customs and institutions of the pagan, Jewish, Christian and Muhammadan religions, from the oldest, older and more recent times, of the various parties in the same, with their holy persons, orders of monks and nuns, Confessional writings and consecrated places, especially of the Greek and Roman Catholic and Protestant churches. Volume 5, Voigt, Weimar 1837, pp. 442-444.
  • Reliable news about Schönherr's life and theosophy. Koenigsberg i. Pr. 1839.
  • Mucker. In: Conversations Lexicon of the Present. K to O. Volume 3, Brockhaus 1840, pp. 748-750.
  • Muckerthum . In: The large conversation lexicon for the educated stands. In connection with statesmen, scholars, artists and technicians . Hildburghausen 1840-1852 , Volume 22, 1852, pp. 297-298.
  • Hugo Daffner : On the psychopathology of the Königsberger Mucker. In: Archives for Psychiatry. Volume 67, Issue 2 and 3, 1923.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bruno Schumacher:  Ebel, Johannes Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 217 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Christopher Clark: Prussia. Rise and fall. 1600-1947. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2007, p. 486 f.
  3. ↑ Christopher Clark: Prussia. Rise and fall. 1600-1947. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2007, p. 487.