Johann Lorenz von Mosheim

Johann Lorenz Mosheim of, Johann Lorenz Mosheim, ( baptized October 9, 1693 in Lübeck, † September 9, 1755 in Göttingen) was a Lutheran theologian and church historian known.

Life

Mosheim was a leading church historian of his time. About his origins Reliable little is known. He was baptized on 9 October 1693 the church of St. Marien zu Lübeck, where his father was entered in the parish register without titles of nobility as a " stranger ". In the 19th century it was assumed that Mosheim was an illegitimate son of Ernst Leopold of Schleswig -Holstein - Norburg ( 1685-1722 ) and a laundress. The couple Mosheim was passed by Elisabeth Sophie Marie (1683-1767), sister of Ernst Leopold and later Duchess of the Principality of Brunswick- Wolfenbüttel, the child. However, speak against the life data Mosheim and his alleged father Ernst Leopold.

The Duchess was also later a dedicated supporter of Mosheim. They financed his studies at the Christian -Albrechts -University of Kiel, where he was enrolled since 1715, and in 1723 he was appointed by supporting a full professor of theology at the University of Helmstedt. Until 1747, he was General School Inspector of the Principality of Brunswick- Wolfenbüttel. Parallel to this, he held a professorship at the University of Helmstedt and was abbot to Mariental and Michael Stone. After that, he was instrumental in the establishment of the University of Göttingen where he and Professor 1747 - became chancellor - the first and only scholar in the university's history. An outstanding event for the young university was the visit of King George II in Göttingen on August 1, 1748. The ceremony as an elevator in St. Paul's Church is handed down by a contemporary engraving and the report of the Registrar of Mosheim.

Due to its modern conceptions of church history was Mosheim as the "father of modern church history " and as the founder of the pragmatic church history. In his opinion, the history of the Church was determined by human action. He was not only the author of numerous theological and ecclesiastical history of art, but also recognized as a preacher and popular.

His epitaph was moved in 1822 from St. Paul's Church in the University Church of St. Nicholas. At the Michaelis house reminds one of the Göttingen plaques at him.

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