Ursula Meyer (prophetess)

Ursula Meyer (* 1682 in Thun ; † 1743 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a Swiss pietist and mystic .

Life

Ursula Meyer was the daughter of Caspar Meyer (* 1647), who, as the chief post administrator, was responsible for all post office keepers and riders in Bern , and his wife Rosina Fankhauser (* 1651). She had three biological siblings and a half-brother from her mother's first marriage.

She received training as a Strumpfweberin , this she had one of her father stocking loom receive. In 1700 the family, who had temporarily stayed in Bern, returned to Thun and joined the pietistic circle of the doctor Johann Rubin (1648–1720).

After her religious awakening , as a result of the effects of the Bernese Pietist Trial of 1699, she fled to the Ronneburg in the Wetterau , where so-called inspiration communities soon formed.

According to the conviction of the inspired, God revealed himself again and again through "tools" which in a trance-like state in so-called "pronunciations" proclaimed the word of God; Ursula Meyer was considered such a "tool".

Her first inspirational speech took place on March 23, 1715.

During her first mission trip on April 4, 1715, she was the first to be inspired, together with brother Christoph Adam Jäger von Jägersburg as her scribe , for the purpose of “gathering the scattered children of God” to Thun in Württemberg and Switzerland. Her path led her to Büdingen , Eschborn , Frankfurt am Main, Heidelberg and Stuttgart , where she gave inspired speeches in various houses. In July 1715 she returned to the Ronneburg and held a discussion there on July 11, 1715.

Her next trip took her to Schwarzenau on July 27, 1715 , to await the arrival of Dutch inspired people. During her stay, she held a discussion in the house of Eberhard Ludwig Gruber , who saw himself as the supervisor of the Inspired and with whom she came into conflict because she did not want to submit. Gruber emigrated to Pennsylvania with the Schwarzenau brothers in 1729 .

In the period from 1715 to 1719 it had 156 debates and was thus, after the main prophet Johann Friedrich Rock , the "tool" with the longest lasting gift of inspired speech. According to her own statements, she had further inspirations after 1719 to 1722, but did not announce them.

Between 1738 and 1740 she left the Ronneburg and moved with her sister to Frankfurt am Main, where she lived until her death. She continued to cultivate her contacts in Switzerland.

At the request of those inspired by Bern, in 1781, sixty years after the debates, a selection of their inspirational speeches was printed under the title JJJ Ein himmlischer Abendschein .

Ursula Meyer remained unmarried. Her burial took place on January 15, 1743 in Frankfurt am Main.

Publications

JJJ A heavenly evening glow, Still on the Feyer evening In and with the world; Put to day = light. To the most intimate examination and awakening before the sighted, and the blind, living, and yet dead; In the realm of grace and also in the realm of nature. Which the spirit of true inspiration, through Ursula Meyerin, an unmarried daughter from the Schweitzerland: But here and there in the Teutsche Land, has had testimony and proclamation. Without location, 1781. ( digitized version )

Web links

Isabelle Noth: Ursula Meyer. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

↑ Isabelle Noth: Ecstatic Pietism: the Inspirationsgemeinden and their prophet Ursula Meyer (1682-1743) . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2005, ISBN 978-3-525-55831-7 ( google.de [accessed on March 20, 2020]).
^ Collection of Bernese biographies. Retrieved March 20, 2020 .
↑ Jan-Andrea Bernhard, Judith Engeler: That the blood of holy wounds runs through me every hour: women and their reading in pietism . Theological Verlag Zurich, 2019, ISBN 978-3-290-18211-3 ( google.de [accessed on March 20, 2020]).
↑ Hieronymus Annoni, Hildegard Gantner-Schlee, Michael Knieriem: On the trail of right faith: an educational journey through Alsace, the Netherlands, Bohemia and Germany: the travel diary of Hieronymus Annoni from 1736 . Theological Verlag Zurich, 2006, ISBN 978-3-290-17373-9 ( google.de [accessed on March 20, 2020]).
↑ "Jesus Jehovah Immanuel" ( Ecstatic pietism. P.152 )

personal data
SURNAME	Meyer, Ursula
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Mayerin, Ursula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss pietist and mystic
DATE OF BIRTH	1682
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tuna
DATE OF DEATH	1743
Place of death	Frankfurt am Main

[1] Isabelle Noth: Ecstatic Pietism: the Inspirationsgemeinden and their prophet Ursula Meyer (1682-1743) . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2005, ISBN 978-3-525-55831-7 ( google.de [accessed on March 20, 2020]).

[2] Collection of Bernese biographies. Retrieved March 20, 2020 .

[3] Jan-Andrea Bernhard, Judith Engeler: That the blood of holy wounds runs through me every hour: women and their reading in pietism . Theological Verlag Zurich, 2019, ISBN 978-3-290-18211-3 ( google.de [accessed on March 20, 2020]).

[4] Hieronymus Annoni, Hildegard Gantner-Schlee, Michael Knieriem: On the trail of right faith: an educational journey through Alsace, the Netherlands, Bohemia and Germany: the travel diary of Hieronymus Annoni from 1736 . Theological Verlag Zurich, 2006, ISBN 978-3-290-17373-9 ( google.de [accessed on March 20, 2020]).

[5] "Jesus Jehovah Immanuel" ( Ecstatic pietism. P.152 )