Philipp Ludwig Muzel

Philipp Ludwig Muzel (born November 24, 1756 in Prenzlau , † December 31, 1831 in Frankfurt (Oder) ) was a German Protestant Reformed theologian.

Life

Muzel was born on November 24, 1756 in Prenzlau (Uckermark) as the son of the church inspector and preacher Karl Ludwig Muzel. He studied in Frankfurt / Oder and Halle (Saale) . In 1776 he became a teacher in the house of the professor and later church councilor Meierotto in Berlin, and in 1778 he became an assistant teacher at the Joachimsthal Gymnasium . In 1783 and 1784 he made an educational trip through Germany and Switzerland. On April 21, 1785 he became Dr. theol. and Prof. theol. at the University of Duisburg . After barely two years here, he went to Frankfurt / Oder in 1787 as Prof. theol., Superintendent and first preacher of the Reformed community. After the dissolution of the University of Frankfurt and its merger with the University of Breslau (1811), he took his leave as professor. Until 1815 he worked as consistorial councilor in Königsberg (Neumark) and again in Frankfurt / Oder until his death.

Muzel gave 1787 and 1788 together with his colleague Heinrich Adolph Grimm (1747-1813) the magazine Stromata. An entertainment book for theologians (Duisburg, Verlag Helwing) out.

Works

Muzel's works include:

• Two letters on Kant's basic principle of morality . Frankfurt, 1791.
• Lectures on Christianity and Deism . Danzig, 1794.
• History of the Frankfurt theological faculty during the last century ( Historia theologicae in Academia Viadrina facultatis per seculum elapsum ) Frankfurt, 1806.

literature

• New Nekrolog der Deutschen , Vol. 9, 1833, pp. 1100–1102.
• Walter Ring: History of the University of Duisburg . City administration Duisburg, Duisburg 1920, pp. 150–151.
• Günter von Roden: The University of Duisburg . Research in Duisburg 12. Duisburg, 1968, p. 250.