Heinrich Müller (theologian)
Heinrich Müller ( born October 18, 1631 Lübeck, .. † 13 Septemberjul / 23 September 1675greg in Rostock ) was a German writer edification, Protestant hymn writer and Lutheran theologian at the University of Rostock.
Life
His parents were originally from Rostock. His father was the citizens, buying and trading man, also church warden of St. Mary and Sixteen man in Rostock Peter Müller and his mother Ilsabe, was the daughter of Matthew Stubbe and his wife Ilsabe blacksmith. They had fled during the war to Lübeck. Heinrich Müller attended the town school in Rostock and moved in 1647 on the advice of Johann Quistorp the Elder, the University of Greifswald. 1650 he returned to the parents' request to Rostock and studied at the University of Rostock with Professors Caspar Mauritius and August Varenius.
The Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Johann Corfinius, he acquired in 1651 the degree of Master and could also hold first lectures. He traveled in the same year to Danzig Johann Botsack, then to Königsberg ( Prussia) to Celestine Myslenta and Christian Dreier. He also visited Leipzig, Wittenberg, Lübeck, Lüneburg, Brunswick, Wolfenbüttel, Helmstedt and Halle ( Saale) where he introduced her to major theologians.
In 1652 he became archdeacon of St. Mary in Rostock, 1659 summoned to him as professor of the Greek language, in 1660 he earned a doctorate in theology and after Caspar Mauritius was appointed in 1662 to Hamburg, he took over his position as professor of theology and the associated he was pastor at St. Mary's. After the death of Johann Kentzler he took over the superintendency at St. Mary's Church.
Müller was considered dogmatic orthodox and entered in the tradition of Martin Luther episode on against ecclesiastical abuses. He was a representative of the internalization of Christianity. His passion sermons were widely used and probably formed one of the textual templates for Picander of newly sealed parts of the St. Matthew Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach, which represent a third text layer next to the Bible text and the chorale texts.
He worked as a devotional writer and wrote a collection of cantatas, which were published under the titles Spiritual Soul Music and Heavenly Love flame. In its publication clergy Erquickungsstunden (1664-1666) he used for the first time in the German language the term Übermensch in terms of " God's people ". Overall, his work output includes nine German and ten Latin title.
Family
Müller married on January 24, 1654 Magaretha Elisabeth, the daughter of the citizen and church leaders in the Church of St. Mary Michael Sibrand. The marriage produced five sons and one daughter have emerged. Peter Müller, Christian Bernhard Müller and the daughter Catarina Elisabeth Müller died in earliest childhood. The father survived Johann Michael Müller, Heinrich Müller and Caspar Matthew Mueller.
Selections
- Heavenly Love Kiss
- The wayward marriage
- Tears and consolation source
- The Divine Flame of Love
- The soul music
- The Cross School
- The altar Thanks
A selection of his clergy Erquickstunden was launched again and appeared in 1938:
- The believer 'is a quite new sense beyond the five senses through: Selections from Heinrich Müller's " clergy Erquickstunden ". Edited by Gottfried Holtz, furrow -Verlag, Berlin 1938 ( furrow library 47)