Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Cantor at Olberstebem

Notes:

He was the choir master and organist (Kantor) at Olbersleben.

Gabriel married Lang, Agnes in UNKNOWN in Germany. Agnes was born in UNKNOWN in Germany; died in DECEASED in Germany; was buried in Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Gabriel married Fischer, Margarete on 24 Feb 1617 in Olbersleben, Sommerda, Thüringen, Germany. Margarete was born in UNKNOWN in Germany; died in DECEASED in Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Education: UNKNOWN, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany
• Education: UNKNOWN, University of Jena, Jena, Jena, Thüringen, Germany
• Education: 18 Nov 1664, University of Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad, Russia
• Residence: Between 1666 and 1667, Kaunas, Kauno, Lithuania
• Life Event: Between 1667 and 1670, Viešvile, Jurbarkas, Lithuania; Hanlehrer?
• Life Event: Between 1667 and 1670, Sovetsk, Kaliningrad, Russia; Lutheran Pastor
• Life Event: Between 1670 and 1672, Chernyakhovsk, Kaliningrad, Russia; Lutheran Cantor
• Life Event: Between 2 Sep 1672 and 21 Feb 1708, Gusev, Kaliningrad, Russia; Lutheran Pastor

Notes:

From Wilbur Kalb

Very good. I myself wasn’t able to find the funeral sermons of Joachim Mörlin and Helena Langer online but I did find out that a Rev. Michael Mörlin ( 1641 - 1708 ) has an article in the Lithuanian Wikipedia and several academic essays because, although he was a Lutheran Pastor from Germany, he was so interested in the Lithuanian language that he wrote two books about it in 1705 and 1706. They were both in Latin but the subjects - “Is it Necessary to Reform the Lithuanian Language?” and “The Principal Primer About the Lithuanian Language” - are enough to immortalize him in the history books about the Lithuanian language.

His Wikipedia article is available in only one language, Lithuanian, but I didn’t need Google Translate to know that “Mykolas Merlinas” was born on the wrong side of the Electorate of Saxony in Olbersleben, a town 11.65 miles ( 18.76 km ) north of Weimar and 63.5 miles ( 102 km ) northeast of Coburg, and studied at the Universities of Leipzig, Jena and Königsberg, and posted to Kauen ( Kaunas in Lithuanian, 1666 - 1667 ), Tilsit and Wischwill ( Tilžė and Viešvilė, 1667 - 1670 ), Insterburg ( Įsrutys, 1670 - 1672 ), and finally Gumbinnen ( Gumbinė, 1672 - 1708 ), where he died. These placenames are in German. In English, they are known, respectively, as Kovno ( before 1990, Kaunas after 1990 ), Sovetsk, Viešvilė, Chernyakhovsk, and Gusev. Kaunas is, of course, in Lithuania, along with Viešvilė, but the others are obviously in Russia as the towns of the Kaliningrad Oblast, formerly the easternmost district of East Prussia.

While a funeral sermon does survive for Michael ( published in Königsberg ), his parents are not named by his Wikipedia article. But I found the complete and faithful German transcription of his Leichenpredigt in a Lithuanian essay online and it does name his parents AND grandparents AND great-grandparents.

Michael married Naps, Anna in 1695 in Gusev, Kaliningrad, Russia. Anna was born in UNKNOWN in Chernyakhovsk, Kaliningrad, Russia; died in DECEASED. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Mayor of Gusev, Owner of wine tavern, Regiment quartermaster in Gusev

Notes:

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Mörlin. Michael
Born Olbersleben [Olbersleben, Sommerda, Thüringen, Germany] 19.12.1611, died Gumbinnen [Gusev, Kaliningrad, Russia] 21.2.1708 buried 20.3.1708, father: Gabriel Mörlin (Gabriel - son of Hugo, this brother of the bishop), cantor in Olbersleben [Olbersleben, Sommerda, Thüringen, Germany], mother: Agnes Lang. University of Leipzig, Jena, Königsberg [Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad, Russia]. 18.11.1664, Passper, Came to Preussia in 1664 Hanlehrer in Tilsit [Sovetsk, Kaliningrad, Russia], Wischwill, Kowno and Tilsit [Sovetsk, Kaliningrad, Russia], 1670 Kantor in Intersburg [Chernyakhovsk, Kaliningrad, Russia], 2.9.1672 as Pastor in Gumbinnen [Gusev, Kaliningrad, Russia]. Married II? 1695 Anna Naps, Insterburg ?, Widower of Jonas Klein in Gumbinnen [Gusev, Kaliningrad, Russia],? Daughter of Christopher Naps cantor to Intersburg [Chernyakhovsk, Kaliningrad, Russia].
Children:
1. Johann Heinrich Mörlin born 1678 klg pr. Officer, 1725 Mayor of the newly founded town of Gumbinnen [Gusev, Kaliningrad, Russia], owner of a wine tavern, Heir of sel. Vw. Regiments quartermaster Bortfeldt.
2 Michel Mörlin, born Gumbinnen [Gusev, Kaliningrad, Russia]?, Graduated University of Königsberg in Prussia on 10 Jan 1682, stipend.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Education: 10 Jan 1682, University of Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad, Russia

Notes:

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Mörlin. Michael
Born Olbersleben [Olbersleben, Sommerda, Thüringen, Germany] 19.12.1611, died Gumbinnen [Gusev, Kaliningrad, Russia] 21.2.1708 buried 20.3.1708, father: Gabriel Mörlin (Gabriel - son of Hugo, this brother of the bishop), cantor in Olbersleben [Olbersleben, Sommerda, Thüringen, Germany], mother: Agnes Lang. University of Leipzig, Jena, Königsberg [Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad, Russia]. 18.11.1664, Passper, Came to Preussia in 1664 Hanlehrer in Tilsit [Sovetsk, Kaliningrad, Russia], Wischwill, Kowno and Tilsit [Sovetsk, Kaliningrad, Russia], 1670 Kantor in Intersburg [Chernyakhovsk, Kaliningrad, Russia], 2.9.1672 as Pastor in Gumbinnen [Gusev, Kaliningrad, Russia]. Married II? 1695 Anna Naps, Insterburg ?, Widower of Jonas Klein in Gumbinnen [Gusev, Kaliningrad, Russia],? Daughter of Christopher Naps cantor to Intersburg [Chernyakhovsk, Kaliningrad, Russia].
Children:
1. Johann Heinrich Mörlin born 1678 klg pr. Officer, 1725 Mayor of the newly founded town of Gumbinnen [Gusev, Kaliningrad, Russia], owner of a wine tavern, Heir of sel. Vw. Regiments quartermaster Bortfeldt.
2 Michel Mörlin, born Gumbinnen [Gusev, Kaliningrad, Russia]?, Graduated University of Königsberg in Prussia on 10 Jan 1682, stipend.