Samuel Gerhard von Melle
Samuel Gerhard von Melle (born October 29, 1690 in Lübeck ; † June 1, 1733 there ) was a German Lutheran theologian.
Live and act
Von Melle came from a family that had come from Westphalia to Lübeck at the end of the Middle Ages and had produced important pastors here over several generations. His father was the chief pastor, senior minister of the clergy, and polymath Jacob von Melle . The doctor and Lübeck city physician Franz Jacob von Melle was his brother.
After visiting the Katharineum , where he gave the final speech in 1709, he went on a trip to Mecklenburg and Pomerania and then went to study theology at the University of Wittenberg , which he concluded with a disputation chaired by Gottlieb Wernsdorf . He moved to the University of Jena and received his master's degree there in the same year under the chairmanship of Michael Förtsch . He then went on a grand tour through Holland, England, Switzerland, France, Germany and Denmark. Returned to Lübeck, he was appointed preacher at St. Aegidien in 1718 ; In 1721 he was promoted to archdeacon (2nd pastor) and held this office until his untimely death. His father put him here in 1734, in the year of his own 50th anniversary in office, in reverse of the usual order of fate, rendering the service to the son that he would have expected from him - an epitaph that is now on the tower wall of the north aisle.
From 1725 to 1732 he edited the scholarly journal Biblioteca Lubecensis in twelve volumes together with Johann Henrich von Seelen and Heinrich Scharbau .
Von Melle's son Johann Jacob (1721–1752) later also worked as a pastor in Lübeck.
Fonts
- De commercio Dei et hominum. Jena 1712
- Exercitatio theol. de prudentia iustorum in cavendo hoc tempore schismate circa pietatem orthodox docendam et rite doctorate. Wittenberg: Müller 1712
- (Ed.): Bibliotheca Lubecensis 1725–1732
- 1-4 ( digitized version )
- 5-8 ( digitized version )
- 9-12 ( digitized version )
literature
- Johann Henrich von Seelen : Memoria Viri Admodum Reverendi Et Praeclarissimi, Domini M. Samuelis Gerhardi A Melle, Archi-Diaconi Aegidiani Meritissimi, Literis Consignata A Jo. Henr. A Seelen, SS. Th. Lic. Et Gymn. Lub. Rect. Lübeck: Green 1733 ( VD18 digitized version , Berlin State Library)
- Johann Gottlob Wilhelm Dunkel: Historical-critical news from deceased scholars ... I / 1, Cöthen: Cörnerische Buchhandluhng 1753, p. 267
Individual evidence
- ^ Inscription with translation by Adolf Clasen : Misunderstood treasures: Lübeck's Latin inscriptions in the original and in German , Lübeck 2003, p. 150f. ISBN 3-7950-0475-6
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Melle, Samuel Gerhard from |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theologian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 29, 1690 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 1, 1733 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |