Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Mayor and Hospital Director in Coburg

Other Events and Attributes:

• Education: 19 May 1554, University of Wittenberg, Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany; Graduated
• Education: 1559, University of Jena, Jena, Jena, Thüringen, Germany; Bachelors Degree
• Education: 15 Mar 1560, University of Jena, Jena, Jena, Thüringen, Germany; Masters Degree
• Life Event: 1561, Coburg, Bayern, Germany; Rector of the Ratsschule
• Life Event: Between 1563 and 1565, Coburg, Bayern, Germany; Deacon at St Moritz and Pastor at Heiligkreuz
• Life Event: Between 1565 and 1572, Langenzenn, Furth, Bayern, Germany; Pastor and Deacon
• Life Event: Between 27 Feb 1572 and 1574, Schauenstein, Hof, Bayern, Germany; Pastor and Deacon
• Life Event: Between 2 Feb 1574 and 1588, Römhild, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; Pastor and Superintendent

Notes:

1. Helena was born on 01 Apr 1542 in Zeitz, Burgenlanddreis, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany and died in Römhild, Gleichberge, Hildburghausen, Germany on 28 Jul 1622.

Helena was married in Coburg on 18 Nov 1561 to Mag. (meaning that he held a Masters degree) Daniel Langer. He was born in Coburg and died in Römhild, Gleichberge, Hildburghausen, Germany on 19 Jun 1588.

She was the mother of ten children. After the death of her husband she moved from Römhild to Rodach were she was living during the great fire of 1609. Together they are noted to be the ancestors of a number of civil servant a parishioner families in the country of Coburg.

Daniel married Mörlin, Helene on 18 Nov 1561 in Coburg, Bayern, Germany. Helene (daughter of Mörlin, Maximillian and Rosenthaler, Helena) was born on 1 Apr 1542 in Zeitz, Burgenlandkreis, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany; died on 28 Jul 1622 in Rodach, Coburg, Bayern, Germany; was buried after 28 Jul 1622 in Römhild, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

1. Helena was born on 01 Apr 1542 in Zeitz, Burgenlanddreis, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany and died in Römhild, Gleichberge, Hildburghausen, Germany on 28 Jul 1622.

Helena was married in Coburg on 18 Nov 1561 to Mag. (meaning that he held a Masters degree) Daniel Langer. He was born in Coburg and died in Römhild, Gleichberge, Hildburghausen, Germany on 19 Jun 1588. Daniel was a Lutheran minister in 1565 in Langenzenn, Germany; in 1572 he was a minister to Schauenstein, Germany. In 1574 he was a minister to Römhild were he was also Superintendent; (signed by Pastor Johann L. in the distrct of Bolchenheim and region of Schlesien usG Gertraud)

She was the mother of ten children. After the death of her husband she moved from Römhild to Rodach were she was living during the great fire of 1609. Together they are noted to be the ancestors of a number of civil servant a parishioner families in the country of Coburg.

Her mother was HELENE / a native Rosenthal / noble family of Nuremberg / their brewer's guide / their groomsman / thewre M. D. Martin Lutherus S (elig) himself and in person.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Lutheran Pastor
• Education: 1502, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany; Student
• Education: 14 May 1505, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany; Bachelors Degree Candidate
• Education: 1514, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany; Masters Degree
• Life Event: 1515, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany; Deacon of Philosophy at the University
• Life Event: 1516, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany; Rector of University
• Education: 16 Nov 1516, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany; Granted Baccularate
• Education: Between 1517 and 1521, University of Wittenberg, Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany
• Education: 1517, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany; Baccularate in Theology
• Life Event: Between 1521 and 1525, Naumburg, Burgenlandkreis, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany; Catholic Priest
• Life Event: Between 1525 and 1529, Naumburg, Burgenlandkreis, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany; Lutheran Pastor
• Life Event: Between 1529 and 1548, Coburg, Bayern, Germany; Lutheran Pastor and Superintendent

Notes:

The following is from Wikipedia

Johannes Langer ( from Bolkow ; * to 1485/1486 in Bolkow , Duchy Schweidnitz ; † 15. September 1548 in Coburg ) was a Protestant theologian and reformer in Naumburg and Coburg.

Childhood and Youth
Even though the Bolkenhainer records are quite complete, Langer's date of birth is not known. However, it can be limited to the years 1484/85. A large number of members of the Langer family appeared in the records of the castle, but the branch of the family belonged to him.

The secondary literature assumes that the Reformer Naumburg and Coburg nephew (second degree) of Breslauer Altaristen similar name was that at the summer semester 1464 University of Krakow was inscribed (and which is referred to in the literature to distinguish as "the Elder" ). In the album of the University there is an entry: John Anthony Langer de Bulkenhayn dioec. Wratislaviensis. Ebendieser Langer carried a coat of arms identical with that of the reformer Langer.

From youth Langers is not known but it is suspected that his parents have been reasonably prosperous, because it enabled him to an education, which allowed him from the winter semester 1502 the University of Leipzig to visit. That he did not study under the supervision and with the support of an order can be made of matrikel refer to the University of Leipzig.

University in Leipzig
The first mention Langers found in matrikel the University of Leipzig , the long winter semester 1502 under the heading nacione De Polonorum was enrolled. The entry reads: Johannes Langer de Bolkenheyn totum VI. Under the Polish nation he was introduced as a second entry; From this it can be concluded that Langer must have undergone the student's oath very early.

On May 14, 1505 Langer was the as one of 15 candidates Baccalaureatsexamen . Under the chairmanship of the dean, four masters, determined by lot, examined one from each nation. When soon subsequent determination then was Quaestio to explain who submitted the chosen by the promoter Baccalaureanten him. The theme of Langers Quaestio is not handed down. Towards the end of 1509 Langer was among the budding masters . The examination took place only once a year, usually on the day of the innocent children, the 28th of December, the vice-chancellor presided. The acquisition of the Magisterium was obviously not cheap. Four guilders had to be paid in fees, along with gifts and a feast ( Prandia Aristotelis ), which lined up the newly appointed master together.

To be able to dedicate the high professional studies, had a master's first two years, the prospective master's in Collegia lectoria et examinatoria teach. The Liber facultatis provides information which events Langer held and where examinations he participated.

Langer then took on various university tasks and earned his university. In January, 1516, it was announced in a document that the artists' faculty had discharged their debts by paying 300 florins. In this, Langer is mentioned as dean of this faculty. The Leipziger matrikel is complete and calls as 215. rector, the history of the University, Johannes Langer of Bolkow. Langer received in 1517 by John III. Schoenberg , Bishop of Naumburg-Zeitz, the diaconate - and ultimately the Presbyter ordination and Bishop Adolf to Merseburg presented him with a certificate, which entitled him to take over all church ministries. Langer was born on January 20, 1519 ad legendum sententias accepted. How and whether Peter Lombard commented, is not known.

The Leipzig debate began on July 4, 1519. It is not to determine whether Langer still stayed at this time in Leipzig and felt attracted already at this time of Luther's doctrine.
Naumburg time.

From 1521 Langer worked in Naumburg. He was first preacher am Domstift and then moved to St. Wenceslas , where he was in 1525 officially and explicitly as from the city of Naumburg Council called to be evangelist preacher operates from 10 October.

Because of the peasant war , which raged especially near Naumburg, let Bishop Philipp of the Palatinate on May 6, 1525 by its governor and his councilors in Zeitz out a letter in which he expressed his concern that under the "Naumburgischen Stiefts And that you might smolder his spiritual, noble, builder, or builder, "the uproar. "For this reason, anstadt of the gentlemen of Freisingk and Naumburgk, etc., wage [sc. The statthalter, and the councilors of Zeitz], who are obliged to pledge themselves to us in the same way, but who are obliged to keep the frugality of the cheapkey, and to show it to us, as we may be told by Jdermann Would like to do. " After all, the bishop himself wrote to the advice of the Naumburg, but in view of the "itzo-hovering heavy law and uproarious deportations, so that in vil orthen and in the princely world of the Deutzian nation, especially in the common Pauersmanne [...] fride and Einikeyt , Brotherly libe, trew and obedient ". The Council then promised obedience to the bishop, and the bishop replied, on June 30, 1525, with a thank-you letter: "We have spelled out your writings, and have made them known and obedient to you as ours, in which we offer all the true and good, have fallen a singularly good and good. With such kindly rejoice, you will be filled with all grace, and acknowledge [...] Cedula. We also occupy thee publicly to you, in our churches, in the churches of the Cantons, from the hour, and with the most ardent (as well as the others) in the city of Naumburg, on the Canton You should read aloud, that the common people may not be heard, nor a whole party may be heard. " Philip was also in the following years did not see in Naumburg, so that the Council, tired of continual consolations, in urgent matters to the Saxon electors turned. That a great part of the prevention of a bloody insurrection in Naumburg and a great reputation in the council and the population were enjoyed by him, is another letter from the Council to the bishop, dated November 24, 1525: "[...] and have praised God Such a preacher, who, in the past and in the past unchristian indignation, has prevented [...] from ushering and unsuccessful [...] and saved [...], so that he would be heard by the whole people in a very willing and consoling manner ".

In 1527 there were disputes between the bishop and the Naumburg council, since changes had been made to the worship and / or measuring system. The bishop complained that the mass was sung in German. This church order is accessible and more corrections of a provocative nature are recognizable, as Langer admits in his own pamphlet. The changes do, of course, affect exclusively the Sunday and holiday worship services, and the priest had no German word to sing, but the congregation was held in German. So they sang the Credo after Wittenberg manner and the epiclesis as a request for faith as Luther Song: We now implore the Holy Spirit . At the center of the worship was the German sermon with German sermons. The father was prayed in German and according to the custom of the Reformation, with "a loving, and a Christian design, and preaching." The most provocative point was the omission of the sacrificial character of the Last Supper. Because instead of the offertory Luther Psalmenumdichtung Out of the depths I cry to you sang, accounted for the Catholic Eucharist theology. Despite its similarity to the Latin Mass it was unacceptable for the bishop. The conflict between the bishop and Naumburg's town council led to the dismissal of Langer. The secondary literature knows about interference Emperor Charles V in the form of an edict, but this edict, although there actually was one thing seems lost.

Subsequently Langer received a summons to Jachymov , but did prevent the city council. In the more and more tense quarrel, the town council repeatedly used Langer, but "the Bishop has kept the point that this preacher was abolished, and he wanted to send the Council another who was to preach the Word of God clearly and louder [ ...]. As the preacher M. Johann Lange [r] has learned, he did not want to stay longer in the biting and bickering, but demanded his farewell [...] and went to Koburg. [...] For this reason, the Council gave such advice to the Kurf. To Saxony, and to inform your Curf. Grace concerns asked. The counsel of the bishop of another preacher is waiting. " The Council very often asked the bishop about Langer's successor, but this position remained vacant for at least three years.
Coburg time.

Langer left Naumburg, but he turned not equal to Coburg, but kept first in Wittenberg , where he published his pamphlet. He has close contact with Martin Luther and particularly with Philip Melanchthon have had.
It is necessary to take a brief look at Coburg's history of the Reformation in order to understand why Langer continued his activity there. In 1518 was Langers fellow student from Leipzig period, Balthasar Düring / Thüring, has been appointed from Konigsberg in Franken to Coburg and had been used successfully there for reformation. He later defended Luther's doctrine against the Zwinglis, which was represented chiefly by the chief man of the Veste, Hans Mohr. For this reason, he kept in touch with the Wittenberg reformers, as his surviving letters illustrate. The first Coburg reformer must have apparently died in the period from the end of August to the beginning of October, the last letter of Melanchthon to Düring is dated 29 August 1529. Melanchthon can not have known about Düring's death at this time. From Luther's letter of 29 October 1529 to Elector Johann the Permanent, in which he recommends Langer for the succession of Düring, it is clear that in Wittenberg the death of Düring was known before 29 October: "It is He He Johann La (N.), From Sharkhai (n.), To Naumburg, preached there, by the Bishops, whom we have tried, and discovered, as the mighty, to coburg to stat to order. Where the nu au (e) ch E. kfg, they would be able to take Johann, with the coburg, and to make the ampt, as he offered himself. " The details of the secondary literature that Düring died at the end of October or early November are nonsensical, since Luther knew at the latest on 29 October that Düring had died.

Elector Johann answers yet on the next day from Torgau : "We have heard Eur letter [...]; And, in the meantime, to whom John Langer eagerly enlightens you, you have also partially recognized him, so that he should have been eager to accept the place and the ambt, which he may have accepted to accept the treatise on Eur Certainly, if you wish to send the same preacher to Torgau on the contrary, let us then show him with writings of presentation and gracious pandering against Coburg, and let him be taken over to such preacherhood. " On the second of November Langer was in Torgau and received the promised presentation by Melanchthon, which shows that Melanchthon was convinced of the qualities of Langer. This letter of Melanchthon is addressed to the priest Johannes Fesel in Coburg.

Melanchthon Langer's conviction is also evident from the following correspondence with Fesel. Even at Christmas this year, he wondered about having heard from the Langer of Naumburg, sent to Coburg, for a long time, and Melanchthon also inquired at length about Langer's condition. As can be seen from the correspondence, there were also other posts open for Langer, if the Coburg position were not acceptable to him. But whether Melanchthon had made his way to Langer in order to give him a quieter position after the time of his struggle in Naumburg, or the Count von Mansfeld had made a name with Langer's doctrine and preaching, he must remain open. At any rate, Johannes Langer's high level of recognition is to be expected.

Langer was more remuneration received than its predecessor Düring, because he not only took over the ministry, but also the church leadership and pastoral service in the city and the Veste Coburg .
Langer was already married at the beginning of his Coburg era. It can be concluded from time circumstances that he must have married after his release in Naumburg and before his service in Coburg, probably in Wittenberg. It is said that Langer left his wife and children at his death. Three sons know that more children are not mentioned in the sources.

Langers importance for the entire history of the Reformation developed during stay Luther at Coburg Fortress occasion of the Augsburg Diet in 1530. In summer 1529, during Langers stay in Wittenberg, Luther created the Schwabach Articles . It is probable that Langer had known this article that he might even be a co-author, for Luther acknowledged, "It was the fact that I helped such artickel (for they are not made by me alone)." This suggests Langer had a copy of it. Anyway, published in May 1530 Coburg Schwabacher items in the printer Hans Bern under the title The bekentnus Martini Luther auff eynzulegen the jezigen company staff Reichstag to Augspurgk, verfasset In siebentzehen Artickel. In the XXX. Jar This pressure was not authorized by Luther, nor did he agree with Luther's handed down manuscripts. Luther was compelled by this pre-publication and the reactions to write a council in which he rejected the sole authority of the Schwabacher articles. This font Luther was titled Auff the screaming of several papists, ruler over the siebentzehen Artickel. Answer Martini Luther. Wittemberg. In MD XXX. Jar

According to a letter to Melanchthon Langer seems in Franconia smaller Visitation to have given, the 1535/36 the second great Visitation followed to the Commission among others Langer belonged. The church conditions since the first visitation in 1528, in which Düring had taken part, now seem to have been considerably improved. Starting from 1536 there is hardly any source material. Only one of Luther's letters to Langer on quarrels about moral misconduct in Coburg is preserved. It was not until 1542 that Johannes Langer was mentioned again. A document from the Coburg State Archives shows that Langer had been called into the first newly established consistory for the decision of disputed Ehesachen. In 1545 the third general visit took place in Franconia. Langer was again involved.
Johannes Langer

On October 17, 1547 Melanchthon wrote, obviously on the request Langers if he one of his sons, probably the oldest, after Wittenberg should send to the study, a last surviving letter to him in selected friendly words and welcomed the latter's request.

That Langer was suffering from a stone disease, probably kidney stones, may consist of a diagnosis of the princely court physician Melchior Keypisch be taken from 18 August 1548th Shortly after this diagnosis, on 15 September 1548, Langer broke down during or after an evening preaching, apparently still in the church, and died the same evening.

Works Received
A letter, dated October 30, 1544, to "Wolff von Sternberg in Calngerg".
An anthology of ten sermons on the preface, the seven petitions and the decision of the Lord's Prayer, as well as a sermon on the subject of prayer and a final, short interpretation of the "Our Father". The last copy is available in the University Library of Jena.
A flyer from the year 1529, addressed to the city of Naumburg and its city council. The full text of the pamphlet (without marginalia) is available at the following address: http://www.glaubensstimme.de/doku.php?id=autoren:l:langer:rechtfertigu ng . A digital copy is viewed here: http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/0002/bsb00025207/images/index. html?seite=00001&l=de .
Literature
Sources
Hans-Joachim Köhler and others (eds.): Pamphlets of the early 16th century. Microfiche series, train 1978-1987, in Fiche 248 / no. 687 with Langer's pamphlet.
Karl Eduard Förstemann others (eds.): Album Academiae Vitebergensis. Older series, Vol. 1 (1502-1560), Leipzig 1841 (Unchanged ND: Aalen 1976).
Sixtus Brown: Naumburg annals. Edited by Felix Köster and F. Hoppe, Naumburg, 2nd edition, 1927.
Otto Posse and others (eds.): Codex diplomaticus Saxoniae regiae. Second part, eleventh volume, Leipzig, 1879. Certificate book of the University of Leipzig from 1409-1555, ed. By B. Stübel.
Otto Posse and others (eds.): Codex diplomaticus Saxoniae regiae. 2. main part, vols. 16-18, The matriculation at the University of Leipzig , ed. By G. Erler, vols. 1-3, Leipzig, 1895 ff.
Corpus Reformatorum. P. Melanthonis opera quae supersunt omnia. Ed. CG Bretschneider, Hall 1834 ff.
D. Martin Luther's Works. Critical edition, Weimar, 1833 ff. Neudruck Graz 1964 ff.
D. Martin Luther's Works. Critical complete edition, Briefwechsel, Weimar 1930 ff. Neudruck Graz 1969 ff.
Historical Commission for the Province of Saxony and Anhalt (ed.): Urkundenbuch the University of Wittenberg. Part 1 (1502-1611), ed. By W. Friedensburg; Historical sources of the province of Saxony and the Free State of Anhalt, ed .: Historische Kommission fd Provinz Sachsen uf Anhalt, Neue Reihe, Vol. 3, Magdeburg 1926.
F. Zarncke: The documentary sources on the history of the University of Leipzig. In: Memoirs of Royal Saxon Academy of Sciences 3, Philological and historical Classe II, Leipzig. 1857
Secondary literature [ Edit | Edit source ]
Otto Albrecht: messages from the files of Naumburg Reformation history. In: Theological Studies and Reviews 77 (1904), pp 32-82.
Karlheinz Blaschke include: The Church organization in the bishoprics of Meissen, Merseburg and Naumburg 1500. Weimar 1969th
E. Borkowsky: Naumburg 1028-1928. A history of German bourgeoisie to the ninety centennial. Jena, 1928.
Georg Buchwald : A suspected or rejected call to the Joachimsthalerstrasse rectory from the year 1528. In: Yearbook of the Society for the History of Protestantism in Austria 14 (1893), pp 238-240.
A. Greiner: The introduction of the Reformation in nursing Coburg 1520-1555, books 1-3 in a band. Coburg 1938.
B. Herrmann: The rule of Hochstift Naumburg on the middle Elbe (= Central German research 59). Cologne / Vienna 1970.
Ernst Hoffmann: Naumburg A / S. In the age of the Reformation. A contribution to the history of the city and of the diocese (= Leipzig studies from the field of history VII / 1). Leipzig, 1901.
Felix Köster: The Church Order for the St. Wenceslas Church in Naumburg aS from 1527. In: monthly for worship and religious art 2 (1897/98), Göttingen 1898, p 361-363.
Felix Köster: contributions to the history of the Reformation Naumburg from 1525 to 1545. In: Journal of Ecclesiastical History 22 (1901), pp 145-159.
Paul Langer: Johannes Langer of Bolkow and his reformatory work. In: Correspondenzblatt of the Association for the History of the Protestant church of Silesia. Vol. 9 (1906/07), pp. 90-122; Vol. 10 (1906/07), pp. 76-109.
Carl Peter Lepsius : Writings. Contributions to Thuringian-Saxon history and German art and antiquities. 3 vols, eds. By A. Schulz, Magdeburg 1854-1855.
Carl Peter Lepsius: history of the bishops of Naumburg Hochstift before the Reformation. A Contribution to the History of the Osterland, First Part. (. Only Vol 1 appeared), Supplement to: idem,. Writings. Magdeburg 2nd edition 1855.
Georg Reichenbacher: Lutheran testimonies. Testimonies of our Lutheran fathers in the Coburg country. Coburg 1961.
Lothar Sauer: The catechumenate in the Coburg region of the Reformation to the terminal at Coburg Bayern 1520-1920. Dissol. Theol. Erlangen-Nuremberg, 1982. *** "
Wolfgang Schanze: Luther at Coburg Fortress (= . Coburg History and Local History Issue 6). Coburg, 2nd edition, 1930.
References
About him see J. Klaus Kipf: Langer, Johannes, from Bolkow (-hayn, Bolkin-), d. Ä. In: Franz Josef Worst Brock (ed.): German humanism 1480-1520. Author Lexicon , vol. 2, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2009-2013, Sp. 27-31, there 28. However, sometimes called the Reformer "the Elder" to distinguish him from his son of the same name.

Superintendent to Coburg
Books: Antiquitates et Memorabilia historiae Franconicae besonders Hildburghausen, Page 417.

Was at the University of Leipzig in 1502 where he received his Bachelors degree in 1504 and where he received his Masters degree on 28 Dec 1509. He received a second Masters degree in 1514 and became Dea of Philosphy at Leipzig in 1516, another Bachelors degree on 16 Nov 1516 and a Bachelors degree in Theology in 1517. He was a Wittenberg from 1517 to 1521. He was ordained and served as pastor to Naumburg from 1521 to 1525. From 1515 to 1529 he was pastor at St. Wenceslas in Naumberg. He was pastor and superintendant at Coburg from 1529 (1530) to 1546.

There is a note in the Meinhoff/Greiner file that Johann in 1526 was knight by Wladislaus of Bohemia and Hungary because of his scholarship, and had disputes with the Zeitz government which succeeded in ousting him in 1529.

And as noted above Johann left St. Wenceslas in 1529.

This knighted is noted in an essay by Dr Holstein, “Dr. Nicolaus Medler und die Reformation in Naumberg”, on pages 271 - 287 in the Volume IV of the Zeitschrift für preußische Geschichte und Landeskunde [ Journal of Prussian History and Local Culture ] ( Berlin, Prussia : A. Bath, 1867 ).

“For five years nothing was heard from the Evangelical preacher. It was not until 1525, when Johannes Langer was called by the Council and the citizens to St. Wenceslaus Church [ in Naumberg ], the Cathedral Chapter at least no longer standing as an hindrance. Born in Bolkenhain in Silesia in 1484, he was raised on 20 December 1502, according to a Diploma from Buda [ now Buapest, Hungary ] by the virtue of his scholarship, especially for the publication of Calendarium astronomicum fatidicum [ Latin, “Prophecies of the Astronomical Calendar” ] for the years between 1500 - 1530, by Wladislaus [ II ], King of Hungary and Bohemia to the nobility. [ Johannes then ] became at [ the University of ] Leipzig Magister, professor and 1514 Rector of the University, 1517 Baccalaureus of Theology.”

Birth:
This was once Bolkenhain, Silesian, Germany

Other Events and Attributes:

• Education: 1533, University of Wittenberg, Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany
• Life Event: 1539, Pegau, Leipziger Land, Sachsen, Germany; Lutheran Pastor
• Life Event: 1539, Zeitz, Burgenlandkreis, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany; Lutheran Pastor
• Life Event: 1543, Schalkau, Sonneberg, Thüringen, Germany; Lutheran Pastor
• Life Event: 1544, Coburg, Bayern, Germany; Court Preacher
• Education: 1546, University of Wittenberg, Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany; Doctor of Theology
• Life Event: 1546, Coburg, Bayern, Germany; Lutheran Superintendent
• Life Event: 1564, University of Jena, Jena, Jena, Thüringen, Germany; Pro Chancellor and Vice-Dean
• Life Event: 1570, Dillenburg, Lahn-Dill-Kreis, Hessen, Germany; Lutheran Pastor
• Life Event: 1572, Siegen, Siegen-Wittgenstein, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany; Lutheran Pastor
• Life Event: 1573, Coburg, Bayern, Germany; Lutheran Pastor

Notes:

Maximilian Mörlin
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Maximilian Mörlin ( 14 October 1516, Wittenberg, Electorate of Saxony - 20 April 1584, Coburg, Duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Eisenach ) was a Lutheran theologian, court preacher, Superintendent in Coburg, and Reformer.

Life
Maximilian grew up with his older brother, Joachim Mörlin, as the sons of Jodok Mörlin ( Jodocus Morlinus, ca. 1490 - 1550 ), the Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wittenberg. After a harsh upbringing, when he learned the trade of a tailor, he switched to the profession of a scholar. Like his brother, he studied at Wittenberg in 1533 and came under the influence of Martin Luther and especially Philipp Melanchthon. From 1539, he was the pastor in Pegau and Zeitz and, after 1543, in Schalkau. On the recommendation of his teacher, he came to Coburg in 1544 as a court preacher ( Hofprediger ) and visited the city’s churches and schools on the behalf of the Duke of Saxony.

After Maximilian graduated in 1546 under Caspar Cruciger the Elder at Wittenberg to the rank of Doctor, he was appointed as a Superintendent. In the theological debates of the times, he was at first on the side of Matthias Flacius. He pursued the condemnation of Justus Menius, participated in the Colloquy of Worms in 1557 and wrote with and Johann Stössel the Weimarer Konfutationsbuch [ the Weimarer Book of Refutations ], which was mandatory for the Lutheran churches throughout Thuringia. The Duke of Saxony, John Frederick the Middle, also took him to Heidelberg to prevent his father-in-law, Frederick III the Pious, the Elector Palatinate of the Rhine, from going over to the Reformed side. The Heidelberger Abendmahlsgespräch [ Heidelberger Discussion of the Lord’s Supper ], with which Mörlin was involved on 3 and 4 July 1560, remained unsuccessful.

However, from the side of the Radicals, Flacius struck, distancing Mörlin from the Philippists. He fought against Andreas Osiander and helped in 1556 to enforce the Reformation to the Margraviate of Baden-Durlach on the behalf of its ruler, Charles II. As the Spiritual Assessor for the Consistory of Weimar, he pleaded in 1561 for peace with the terms of the mediating theologian Melanchthon. In Jena, he served in 1564 as the Pro-Chancellor and Vice-Dean in the first program for theological doctorates and upgraded Stössel’s academic degree from Magister to Doctor.

The next Duke of Saxony, John William, himself the supporter of Flacius, expelled Mörlin from the Duchy in 1569. A year later, Mörlin was appointed to Dillenburg and later Siegen, where he represented his side against the Reformed tendencies of the ruler, the Count of Nassau-Dillenburg, John VI, but without success. In 1573, he returned from Siegen to Coburg, where he was restored to his old offices. He dismissed the Gnesio-Lutherans and used his influence to add to the Formula Concordiae [ Formula of Concord ] and to contend with its effects.

Mörlin gained importance as a preacher and the representative of church administrators.

In 1581, he married for the second time. He was survived by twelve sons.

Literature
(English) John McClintock and James Strong, “Mörlin, Maximilian”, in : Cyclopædia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature, Volume VI. - ME - NEV. ( New York City : Harper & Brothers, 1894 ), pages 617 and 618
(English) Samuel Macauley Jackson, editor, “Moerlin, Maximilian”, in : The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, Volume VII : Liutfrand - Moralities ( New York City and London : Funk and Wagnalls Company, 1910 ), page 434.
(German) Julius August Wagenmann, “Mörlin, Maximilian”, in : Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie ( ADB ) [ General German Biography ], Band 22 [ Volume 22 ] ( Leipzig : Duncker & Humblot, 1885 ), page 325.
(German) Friedrich [ Eduard ] Lezius ( as Karl Färber ) : “Mörlin, Maximilian”, in : Realencyklopädie für protestantische Theologie und Kirche ( RE ) [ Real Encyclopedia of Protestant Theology and Church ], 3. Auflage, Dreizehtner Band : Methodismus in Amerika bis Neuplatonismus [ 3rd Edition, Thirteenth Volume : Methodism in America to Neo-Platonism ] ( Leipzig : J. C. Hinrichs, 1903 ), pages 247 - 249.
(German) Wolfgang Hamm, editor, Wittenberger Gelehrtenstammbuch [ Pedigrees of the Wittenberger Scholars ], produced by the Deutsches Historisches Museum [ Museum of German History ] of Berlin in cooperation with the Mitteldeutschen Verlag ( Halle : Mitteldeutschen Verlag, 1999 ), ISBN 3-932776-76-3, page 327
(German) August Beck, Johann Friedrich der Mittlere von Sachsen [ John Friedrich the Middle of Saxony ], Volumes 1 and 2 ( Weimar : Hermann Böhlau, 1858 )
(German) Albert Greiner, “Das Leben und Wirken des Doktors der Theologie Maximilian Mörlin ( Superintendent zu Coburg ) [ The Life and Work of the Doctor of Theology Maxmilian Mörlin ( Superintendent of Coburg ) ]”, in : Aus der Heimat ( des Coburger Landes ) [ From the Homeland of the Coburger Land ], 1936

The Reason Pastors Signed the Victorini Strigel [ In the winter of 1561 and 1562, after Matthias Flacius and his followers were tossed out of the University of Jena, a ] “Confession of Strigel” was sent to Württemberg for the settlement of the contentious points with Strigel, on the basis of which Jakob Andreae and Christoph Binder formulated a “Victorini Declaration”, which were recognized by the latter and the superintendents of the country. In order to achieve this agreement in the country, Maximilian Mörlin and Johann Stössel undertook a Visitation but were met with the bitter opposition from the pastor because of the Declaration. Even a “Superdeclaratio” [ Latin, “Super-sized

Maximillian married Rosenthaler, Helena in 1541 in Zeitz, Burgenlandkreis, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany. Helena (daughter of Rosenthaler, Egidius and Grünhofer, Ursula) was born in 1505 in Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Bayern, Germany; died in 1547 in Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Bayern, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: LKCH-JTJ

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate Surnames: Mörlin, Morlinus, Morlinius, Mhorlin, Maurus, Murfein, Morle, Mohr, Morl
• Nickname: Jodok
• Education: 13 Sep 1508, Freiburg im Breisgau, Freiburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; Entered the University
• Education: 1509, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany; On Scholarship
• Education: 6 Oct 1510, University of Wittenberg, Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany; Bachelors Degree
• Education: 10 Feb 1512, University of Wittenberg, Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany; Masters Degree
• Life Event: 1514, University of Wittenberg, Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany; Professor of Metaphysics
• Life Event: 1516, University of Wittenberg, Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany; Dead of the Faculty of Arts
• Life Event: 1520, Westhausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; Pastor and Administrator
• Life Event: Between 9 Apr 1521 and 15 Sep 1550, Westhausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; Lutheran Pastor

Notes:

The following was written by Wilbur Kalb:

Jodok Mörlin

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Jodok Mörlin, also known in Latin as Jodocus Morlinus or Maurus ( ca 1490, Feldkirch, Archduchy of Austria, Holy Roman Empire - 15 September 1550, Westhausen bei Hildburghausen, Electorate of Saxony ), was a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wittenberg, the Lutheran Pastor of Westhausen bei Hildburghausen, and a Reformer. He is famed as one of the first witnesses, allies and participants of the Reformation and as the father of two Lutheran theologians, Joachim Mörlin and Maximilian Mörlin.

Contents
1 Life
1.1 Before the Reformation
1.2 During the Reformation
1.3 After the Reformation
2 Family
3 References
4 External Links
5 Bibliography

Life

Before the Reformation
Jodok Mörlin was born in or around 1490 in Feldkirch in the Vorarlberg, the westernmost part of the Archduchy of Austria. He was the son of Hugo Mörlin ( 1446 - 1518 ) and his wife, Lucia Ebenko ( d. 1513 ), the grandson of Johann Mörlin, and the great-grandson of another Hugo Mörlin. The name, Jodok, was not Germanic; it was Breton. Jodok might have gotten his rare name if he was baptized on 13 December, the feast day of St Judoc, a 7th Century noble from Brittany.

Nothing is known about his early years. But in 1508 he was studying at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau, with Johann Eck as one of his teachers, and then, on a scholarship, at the University of Leipzig in 1509 and the University of Wittenberg in 1510. Here in Wittenberg his career was made. He graduated with a Bachelor’s degree after only a few months in 1510 and a Magister’s degree in 1512 and became the Professor of Metaphysics in 1514 and then the Dean of the Faculty of Arts in 1516, all at the University of Wittenberg. In 1517 and 1518, he taught an introductionary course about “the three principal languages, Latin, Hebrew and Greek, and the ‘Luther College’ grammar [ der dreier vornehmsten sprach, der lateinischen, jüdischen und kriechischen, und der Kollege Luther grammatica ].”

During the Reformation
Three years after the beginning of the Reformation, in the spring of 1521, Mörlin was appointed as the pastor of Westhausen. His post had been left vacant in 1520 with the death of the last Catholic priest, Henningus Gode. By then, Mörlin was a presbyter at the Diocese of Magdeburg and already the Conventor [ parish administrator ] of Westhausen. He was recommended to replace Father Gode by Martin Luther and presented by two brothers, Frederick the Wise, the Elector of Saxony, and John the Steadfast, the Duke of Saxony, to the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg, Konrad von Thüngen. Mörlin was accepted and installed on 9 April 1521.

By then, Mörlin already had a wife and at least five sons, including Joachim and Maximilian, so he was, as Luther had noted in March 1521, “impotent and very poor [ unvermögend und sehr arm ]”, in need of a better income. The appointment did improve his financial prospects because Westhausen was one of the several parishes assigned to the University of Wittenberg so that the professors would have steady income from them. But, as both the pastor and a resident, Mörlin still had to deliver his parish’s annual fees to the University. He himself was not able to obtain his own exemption until 1528. So his financial problems continued, forcing his sons to learn their trades. Joachim was apprenticed as a potter, and Maximilian, as a tailor. Nevertheless, their father proved to be popular as a preacher. Residents came from all over the Heldburger Land to Westhausen to hear his sermons for years before they even got their own Lutheran pastors. This was precisely what the Elector and the Duke wanted, to limit the Catholic influence of the Prince-Bishops of Würzburg over the Heldburger Land.

In 1528, the Electorate of Saxony had its first Visitation of the East Country [ Ostland ] of Franconia. When the Visitors came to Westhausen, the parishioners told them that “he was doing all the hard work in the preaching of the Divine Word, and they had no lack of it, but they complained that he would be overcome with drink and pick fights [ er In predigung gotlichs worts allen vleis thue und hetten an Ime kein Mangel, allein wes er sich den trunk überwindten und betryegen Iyeß ]”. Mörlin, threatened with dismissal, promised to improve. In the following Visitations, he kept his word, and he was allowed to keep his offices. But he still had to keep a chaplain and pay him an annual salary of 40 guilders.

After the Reformation
Mörlin died in Westhausen on 15 September 1550 after 29 years as the town’s pastor.

Family
Jodocus was married twice. His first wife was Margarete, the daughter of the administrator of the Elector of Saxony’s vineyards, and she died in either 1514 or 1515. Mörlin then married Anna Hausknecht, perhaps a native of Wittenberg, in 1515 and they had 12 children, including two of their eight sons, Joachim and Maximilian.

References
1)The surname was also spelled in German before and during the Reformation as Morle, Mohr, Mörtle, Mörlein and Morlin. They all mean the same thing in German, “Little Moor”, in honor of St Maurice the Moor. The coat-of-arms of Joachim Mörlin shows a Moor’s head.
2) Although he was with the Reformation from the beginning, Mörlin was not the first Reformer to have come out of Feldkirch. When he came to Wittenberg in 1510, there was already a group of Feldkirchers studying and teaching there. They were led by Bartholomäus Bernhardi ( 1487 - 1551 ). He had made the trip to Wittenberg in 1504 with fellow Feldkirchers, Johannes Dölsch and Christoph Metzler, the future Bishop of Constance. Their biographies can be read online at “Feldkircher Reformatoren [ Feldkirch Reformers ]” in Vorarlberg Reader.
3) Gruner, “Meine Mörlin-Vorfahren.
4) Krauß, “Die Mörlin”, page 158.
5) See Günther Drosdowski, Duden Lexikon der Vornamen [ Duden Dictionary of Forenames ] ( Mannheim, Vienna and Zürich : Dudenverlag, 1974 ), page 123, for more details. The Saint had been venerated in Germany since the 19th Century. According to Duden Lexikon der Vornamen, his name is a Celtic word for “warrior”.
6) Clemen, “Briefe Mörlin”, pages 220 - 221.
7) “Feldkircher Reformatoren”
8) Fox, Drei Vorarlberger, pages 26 - 32.
9) Also known as Henningus of Havelberg, Father Gode, a native of Werben (Elbe) in the Electorate of Brandenburg, joined the University of Wittenberg in 1511 as a Professor of Law. He had been the Rector and a Professor at the University of Erfurt, from which he graduated in 1489 with a Doctorate in jurisprudence. See Richard Thiele, editor, Erphurdianus Antiquitatum Variloquus, Incerti Auctoris, [ Latin, Etymological Antiquities of Erfurt, Author Unknown ] ( Halle an der Saale, Saxony : Otto Hendel, 1906 ), page 149, footnote 5 for more details.
10) In early 1521, Luther wrote three letters, all in Latin, to Georg Spalatin in an attempt to improve Mörlin’s career and financial prospects. They were dated 29 January, 17 February and 19 March. See Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette, Dr. Martin Luthers Briefe, Sendschreiben und Bedenken, Erster Theil [ Letters of Luther, First Part ] ) ( Berlin : Georg Reimer, 1825 ), pages 553, 559, 574 ff.; Ernst Ludwig Enders, Dr. Martin Luthers Briefwechsel, Band 3 : Briefe vim Dezember 1520 bis August 1522 [ Dr. Martin Luther’s Handwritten Letters, Volume 3 : From December 1520 to August 1522 ] ( Leipzig : Heinsius, 1889 ), pages 78 and 81; Karl Eduard Förstemann, editor,Neues Urkundenbuch zur Geschichte der evangelischen Kirchen-Reformation [ New Book of Documents of the History of the Evangelical Reformation of the Church ] ( Hamburg : Friedrich Andreas Perthes, 1842 ), page 12, Item 20.
11) Albert, “Magister Mörlin”, pages 68 - 70.
12) Georg Berbig, “Die erste kursächsische Visitation im Osterland - Franken [ The First Visitation of the Electoral Saxony in the East Country of Franconia ]”, Archiv für Reformation-Geschlichte [ Archives of the History of the Reformation ], Vol. III, pages 377 ff.

External Links
1) (German) Ancestry and family of Jodocus Mörlin at Andreas Gruner’s online essay, “Meine Mörlin-Vorfahren [My Mörlin Ancestors]”
2) (German) Biography of Jodocus Mörlin in “Feldkircher Reformatoren [Feldkirch Reformers]” at the Vorarlberg Reader website.

The Letters of Jodocus Mörlin as Transcribed by Wilbur Hanson Kalb.
These letters were published by Dr. Walter Heins.

All the letters are done except for one little word, “bülhin”. This little pesky word doesn’t seem to exist today, not even in the dialect of Saxony, and I don’t know the dialect of Voralberg. It’s not even in the online dictionary of Middle High German. As far as I have been able to decipher, it’s supposed to mean, basically, “big and strong as an oak” or, in other words, “heartiness”. Otherwise, it’s done. I could have done that section leading to the letters but you probably would say, “To hell with that! I wanna see the letters!!!” So here they are, with the footnotes at the bottom and a little correction to the first letter’s last sentence. Your friend, Herr Reuther, is right. Jodocus’s personality as well as the family tensions really do come through his letters. I had fun with the translation; it didn’t even feel like work. No wonder you are so excited about those letters! I had a late start this morning but I finished much sooner than I’d thought. I just hope that Jodocus didn’t embarrass his children when they were teenagers . . . “Mother was fine; she didn’t cry. Father did all the crying . . . ”

1. Undated ( to Wittenberg )

The address : "where the most esteemed Master of hol. Theology . . . ”, and the remark, which Joachim had added underneath to prove “to my Doctorate”, places this letter in 1540. On 18 September this year Joachim Mörlin was a Doctor of Theology in Wittenberg.

Grace and Peace of the Christ! Dear Son! I would have written to you more, but as things stand now, I cannot write to you more than I could to send with this messenger, Joh. Schlesinger, the 10 Gulden to satisfy your earnest request for now. Your thesis 1) is worth more than 10 Hungarian florins to me. May The Almighty support your beginning! O my Joachim, my son Joachim, how much I would be with you! The messenger will show you my heart. Farewell! I can not and will not you write more now. Your brother 2) has put himself in trouble, but to which you seem to be quite indifferent.

2. 19 June 1543 ( to Arnstadt )

Grace and Peace of Christ our Savior, I wish you and all of yours, Doctor and my dear son! First of all I will not deny to you that I have been twice to Schalkau ; the first time, when your brother received the parish, and now for the second time, when he moved there with his whole family. May the Almighty GOD bless his beginning! But how do you like this fact, let me know by letter, my Doctor! For out of your Brother's words, I realized that you're not quite agreeable with it. But this is certainly true that, when the parish gained your brother as its pastor, I was so pleased that I was moved to flow with steams of tears. How did the plague happened to us, I will tell you, when I am come to you. I want Brother-in-law Wolfgang as a companion. But by foot I can not come, a horse I do not have, and with business it is not possible. As for your sister Katherine, know that, on Wednesday after midnight, in the same hour as your Anna, my dear granddaughter, had in the night before, that is, on Tuesday ( as your letter reports ), fell asleep in the Christ in the presence of us parents and the family. How I felt there, you can imagine yourself. That distinguished aristocrat Nicholas von Heßberg has proven to be very impressed with your benevolence, as he has expressed personally to me. How is your mother doing, you’ll hear from our Wolfgang. May the Almighty GOD bring her 3 ) and her two daughters-in-law or better daughters in grace a safe delivery for His praise and for the propagation of Christianity and of the family of the, blissfully and gently resting in the Christ, Hugo Mörlin! "I think that the Mörlin clan will not wither away. It would be too damaged, because ( Thank God forever ) they [ are ] too healthy." 4 ) Farewell! Greetings to you and all of your Mother, Sisters and the whole family . . .

3. 24 January 1546 ( To Göttingen )

Grace and Peace of the Christ, whose blessing be with your new mother, my dear daughter, and with the grandson and the whole family, my best son and Reverend Doctor! The paper of Dr. Luther, which I have forwarded in accordance with the Brother regarding the Doctorate 5 ), may do him good. He will do so on the advice of the others, who are smarter than I am. In the past year, he has had to depend upon mine, his father’s, advice, [ and ] celebrated his wedding for the second time 6 ), but, from from the letters you had sent to him, I have seen that I had advised him badly. I hoped that your Reverence had graced the wedding with your presence. But, deceived in my hope, I myself thought that, if you had been invited to the wedding of a relative, you would have willingly gathered yourself a single piece of gold and endowed it on the bride and groom, like your Brother, yet you still preferred to wait for a whole year. What is this meanness, not to say this greed, in you, My Lord? On the top of that, it has made me a little upset that your Brother had to pay the messenger. Such unseemly behavior does not become a Doctor of Theology and even less for such a wonderful Bishop, who knows exactly how the chosen Armor of St. Paul makes a Bishop. 7 ) This admonishment, my son, take it as fatherly and friendly [ advice ]! With us, everything is healthy, but everything is also quite expensive. With strong and good wine, the LORD has blessed me. Mother, Brother and Sisters are well, thank GOD. The Mother gave birth on 13 July to a son, who is named after my dear late father Hugo. It is in the childbed the wife of Maximilian has had a daughter Apollonia. So our family increased to the Glory of the Almighty GOD. As for me, it is just bad. Because since Easter I have been in bed three times and in such a way that everyone said unanimously that I was out of it, and was sure in several places [ = times ] that I was already dead. May the Almighty GOD bless me with His Father’s favor and calls me, if it seems good to Him, from this evil world with a good and happy “little hour” [ Stündlein = death ]. What you write about the Duchess 8 ), I do not like. I fear that she limps with her son 9 ) with both legs. 10 ) She wants to serve the Christ and Belial. 11 ) They say, they are weighted with the Gospel, but they resent the Brunswicker oppression and imprisonment. 12 )

If I were like you, I would give them passages from the Gospel to keep in mind - Matthew 10, Verse 37 : “Whosoever loves his son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me”. Likewise, Matthew 16, Verse 24 ; Mark 8, Verse 34 ; Luke 14, Verse 26, etc. You may handle them as you wish, as it befits a true Servant of the Word! As for the partridges, I have nothing at hand. I have been to the [ partridge ] house in this year only five times.

On 26 January, your Mother and I were invited by your Brother, but, because of the flooding, we could not go to the first church service of his wife in Coburg. There are greetings in my and your Mother’s name to all of you, your wife, children, Wolfgang and the whole family, especially the Administrator Simon, “with my bülhin”.

4. 13 July 1546 ( to Göttingen )

Grace and Peace from GOD the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ to you and yours, my dear son and Doctor! There is nothing more than what I would rather have, that you would be provided by us with a superintendent or any other position worthy of you, especially since I see that you are reluctant to tarry among the Saxons, perhaps because of the coarseness of the food and the greed of the people. Oh, how I wish that you still had that position in Arnstadt! 13 ) The whole city, indeed the whole area, is waiting for you with such longing! But enough of it! As for my situation, so everything is in order, except that I am very often plagued by [ a kidney ] stone. And that we are floating in the greatest dangers because of the chaos of war in your and other nations. May the Almighty GOD turn them to good and destroy with His powerful arm all enemies of the Gospel! That this may be done, let us pray steadfastly through our unremitting and pious prayers! As for my position, as you were told by our dear brother-in-law Wolfgang, GOD will lead you back to health. So farewell, my son, and keep me fondly as your Father in the flesh, as you tend! Greetings to you and all of yours, Mother, Brother and Sisters . . .

5. 3 July 1548 ( to Göttingen )

. . . I have received your letter in which you comfort me, your father, s you can, as would a pious son with his father. For you know my innate timidity, so I need your much needed consolation from you and your brother. The Almighty GOD will send me, you and the brother, as well as all ministers of the Word His Holy Spirit, this true Comforter, Who consoles us in this very dangerous time, and shows us His Grace, so that we may prove to remain steadfast in the Confession of his Word. Because there is nothing in the whole world, that would be exposed to greater and heavier dangers than the pulpit of the preacher and the ministry of preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ, as I see from your letter : May the LORD be with you as He had been with the divine Peter and Paul, as He was in the Acts of the Apostles! Know also, my son, that the LORD has blessed me with His abundant blessings on June 1 with a son . . .

6. 18. March 1549 ( to Göttingen )

, , , I have received from you two letters, in which you wish to report at first, that the delivery of your wife has gone bad. How much that has pained me, I can not express to you by mail. I fear that those dangerous times have caused the event. But again, I am comforted by Luther’s and Bugenhagen's writings on the 29th Psalm about unbaptized children. How it has pleased the LORD, whose will shall be done and has been done. Know also that I have endured great pain for the whole Advent season, because of the [ kidney ] stone and other diseases. I have taken only a little bit of food to me the potion gets me. I see furthermore, my son, that you are very worried about your father . . . Because you want to know what secret I hold, if I want to stand firm in the pure and fair teaching of the Gospel. 14 ) I, although a very timid and pusillanimous man, have decided and asked with other ministers of the Word of the Superintendent, who replied that I would not fall off the pure and true doctrine of the Gospel . . . You pray for me, your aged father who is now in his 60th year, to the LORD that He would send me His Holy Spirit, which will make bold and brave to withstand all dangers for the sake of the Gospel. I can not and do not know no more to write. Because I do not read "because the Teutonic kathenfftlin". . . 15 )

7. 1 October 1549 ( to Göttingen )

. . . There is nothing I wanted more now than I ever have to have you with us . . . I was recently in Coburg with Maximilian, who treated me most honorably and had invited several highly respected men to honor me, and most magnificently and brilliantly hosted them. From what I hear from Master Simon and others, I believe that you will not remain long in Göttingen. 16 ) The LORD do it with you, as it will be good and healthy for you and yours and the Church of Christ. The LORD is the Earth and its bounty. 17 ) If they persecute you in this city, flee to another! 18 ) Show yourself only as a brave soldier of Christ! . . . I am no longer on the side of Wittenberg. It seems to me that they are flattering the Emperor, especially Bugenhagen. But you stand firm in the faith, be manly and be strong in the LORD! 19 ) How do I feel, as you would say, “my buolhin”. . .

Remarks :
1) Probably Disputatio ad dictum Luc. XIX : Vade, vende, relique omnia! Wittenbergae 1540 [ Latin, “Discussion of the Theme of Luke 19 : Go Thy Way, Sell, Leave the Rest! Wittenberg, 1540” ] ( Altpreußische Monatsschrift [ Old Prussian Monthly ], Vol. 44, p. 297).
2) Maximilian.
3) According to Letter No. 3, Jodocus Mörlin, who was in his 60th year in 1549 according to Letter No. 6, had a son born on 13 July 1545 and, according to Letter No. 5 another son born on 1 June 1548. He had 12 sons altogether. Except for Joachim und Maximilian who were born in Wittenberg, we know of only the one born in Westhausen, Stephan, who was Deacon from 1554 to 1561 in Coburg, then Pastor in Hildburghausen and died on 10 June 1604, and of a Georg, who was a schoolmaster in Westhausen in 1582.
4) These two sentences [ are ] also in German.
5) Maximilian Mörlin was the Doctor of Theology in Wittenberg on 15 March 1545.
6) That is not true. Realencyklopädie, Vol. 13, p. 249, states that Maximilian’s first wife was a Wittenberger, who bore him two daughters and twelve sons, and, at the beginning of 1531, he was, as a 65-year-old widower, “was married for the second time to a good peasant”. The Wittenberger probably was already the second wife.
7) I Timothy 3:3 : “Not stingy”.
8) Elisabeth von Braunschweig-Lüneburg [ 2nd wife of Eric I, the Elder, the Duke of Brunswick-Lüneberg and Prince of Calenberg-Göttingen ]
9) Eric the Younger [ Eric II, the Duke of Brunswick-Lüneberg and Prince of Calenberg and, since 1495, Göttingen. Unlike his mother and first wife, Eric did not stay loyal to the Lutheran Church. ]
10) See I Kings 18:21.
11) See II Corinthians 6:15.
12) Henry the Younger, the [ last Catholic ] Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, in an attempt to recapture his country in the autumn of 1545, was captured by the Landgrave Philip [ “the Magnanimous” ] of Hesse [ one of the leaders of the Reformation ].
13) The Count of Schwarzenburg [ Gunter XL “the Rich” or “With the Fat Mouth” ] deposed Joachim Mörlin as the Superintendent of Arnstadt on Martini [ St Martin’s Day, 11 November ] 1543 but he was still allowed to preach and officiate until Easter 1544.
14) Joachim Mörlin seems to have added to his father that, as he himself did, he had to protest the Interim and also to condemn every flexibility in the Mitteldingen [ “neutrality” ] ( in rebus adiaphoris [ Latin, “in the matters of indifference” ] ). Jodocus gets him to understand that he had no desire to interfere in the theological disputes and ecclesiastical politics.
15) Probably = Catonian, see Endres, Luthers Briefwechsel [ Luther’s Correspondence ] pages 15, 317, 154, Footnote No. 14 on p. 318 says : “from Cato, Disticha Catonis [ Latin, “Distichs of Cato” ], or from Catena [ not a real author, just a pen name to cover all the nameless commentators ], Bibelauslegungen [ Interpretations of the Bible ] (?)“. The latter appears to be more correct.
16) In December 1549 Duke Eric ordered the Council of Göttingen to expel Joachim Mörlin. On 18 January 1550 he was released and had to get out of the city. ( Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für niedersächsische Kirchengeschichte [ Journal of the Society of the Church History of Lower Saxony ], pages 34, 35, 37 ff ).
17) Psalms 24:1.
18) Matthew 18:23.
19) I Corinthians 16:13.

Jodocus married Hausknecht, Anna in 1515 in Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany. Anna (daughter of Hausknecht, George and Lauberger, Ursula) was born in 1495 in Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany; died in 1544 in Westhausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; was buried in 1544 in Westhausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Nickname: GILG
• FSID: L8MV-CXN
• Life Event: 1511, Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Bayern, Germany; Merchant
• Life Event: 1514, Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Bayern, Germany; Guarden of the children of Hartman Schedel

Notes:

Egidius and Ursula nee' Grunhofer Rosenthaler supposed had twelve child of which Ursula was the last.

Is is possible that a Helene Rosenthaler was also a child, and the first wife of Maximilian Mörlin. She would have died in 1542/1543. And then Ursula would have married Max in 1543/1544

Egidius married Grünhofer, Ursula in 1505 in Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Bayern, Germany. Ursula (daughter of Grünhofer, Christoph and Schlüsselfelder, Ursula) was born in 1490 in Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Bayern, Germany; died in 1525 in Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Bayern, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: L8MV-CF7