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
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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 Rhau, Anna on 17 Jan 1581 in Coburg, Bayern, Germany. Anna (daughter of Rhau, Georg and Büsse, Anna) was born between 1520 and 1524 in Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany; died on 29 Mar 1584 in Coburg, Bayern, Germany; was buried on 31 Mar 1584 in Coburg, Bayern, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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]

1. Mörlin, Helene 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.

Maximillian married Rosenthaler, Ursula in 1543 in Schalkau, Sonneberg, Thüringen, Germany. Ursula (daughter of Rosenthaler, Egidius and Grünhofer, Ursula) was born in 1519 in Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Bayern, Germany; died on 31 Jul 1580 in Coburg, Bayern, Germany; was buried on 2 Aug 1580 in Coburg, Bayern, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Mörlin, Appolonia was born in 1545 in Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany; died on 16 Jan 1584 in Graba, Saalfeld-Rudolstadt, Thüringen, Germany; was buried after 16 Jan 1584 in Graba, Saalfeld-Rudolstadt, Thüringen, Germany.
2. Mörlin, Katharina was born about 1550 in Coburg, Bayern, Germany; died in Apr 1587 in Stressenhausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany.
3. Mörlin, Ursula was born about 1554 in Coburg, Bayern, Germany; died on 25 Apr 1587 in Coburg, Bayern, Germany.
4. Mörlin, Maximillian was born on 21 Apr 1555 in Coburg, Bayern, Germany; died on 17 Mar 1628 in Coburg, Bayern, Germany; was buried on 17 Mar 1628 in Coburg, Bayern, Germany.
5. Mörlin, Christoph was born on 8 Dec 1555 in Coburg, Bayern, Germany; died in 1558 in Coburg, Bayern, Germany.
6. Mörlin, Cordula Anna was born on 12 Apr 1557 in Coburg, Bayern, Germany; was christened on 22 Apr 1557 in Coburg, Bayern, Germany; died on 21 Apr 1584 in Heldburg, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany; was buried after 21 Apr 1584 in Heldburg, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany.
7. Mörlin, Jobst was born on 29 May 1558 in Coburg, Bayern, Germany; died on 23 Jun 1558 in Coburg, Bayern, Germany.
8. Mörlin, Joachim was born on 17 Jul 1559 in Coburg, Bayern, Germany; was christened on 27 Jul 1559 in Coburg, Bayern, Germany; died on 13 May 1590 in Coburg, Bayern, Germany.
9. Mörlin, Johann was born on 29 Sep 1560 in Coburg, Bayern, Germany; was christened on 9 Oct 1560 in Coburg, Bayern, Germany; died on 10 May 1590 in Coburg, Bayern, Germany; was buried on 13 May 1590 in Coburg, Bayern, Germany.
10. Mörlin, Rebecca was born on 8 Mar 1562 in Coburg, Bayern, Germany; was christened on 18 Mar 1562 in Coburg, Bayern, Germany; died on 2 Aug 1620 in Coburg, Bayern, Germany; was buried on 3 Aug 1620 in Coburg, Bayern, Germany.
11. Mörlin, Johann Heinrich was born on 22 Jan 1564 in Jena, Jena, Thüringen, Germany; was christened on 1 Feb 1564 in Coburg, Bayern, Germany; died on 13 May 1590 in Coburg, Bayern, Germany; was buried on 13 May 1590 in Coburg, Bayern, Germany.
12. Mörlin, Friedrich was born on 11 Oct 1565 in Jena, Jena, Thüringen, Germany; was christened on 21 Oct 1565 in Coburg, Bayern, Germany; died on 15 Jan 1567 in Coburg, Bayern, Germany; was buried on 10 Apr 1584 in Coburg, Bayern, Germany.
13. Mörlin, Gabriel was born on 22 Nov 1566 in Jena, Jena, Thüringen, Germany; was christened on 2 Dec 1566 in Coburg, Bayern, Germany; died on 10 Apr 1584 in Coburg, Bayern, Germany.

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]

Notes:

Born 1446 in Feldkirch, Voralberg, Austria and died in 1518. Hugo is mentioned in he 1479 writings in the Turmknopf of the church of St Nikolaus in Feldkirch, Voralberg, Austria. Herr von Feldkirch "bey Alga in Schwaben, aus dem uralten Geschlecht derer Mörlinen von Adlichen Eltern beyder Linien gezeuget".
Married around 1475/90 to Lucia Ellenbog. Lucia was born around 1459 and died on 15 Jul 1513 in Feldkirch.

Miscellaneous: Jodocus Morlin and seine Nachkommen (Karina Kulbach-Fricke), Birth place and year.

Hugo married Ebenko, Lucia between 1475 and 1490 in Feldkirch, Feldkirch, Vorarlberg, Austria. Lucia was born in 1459 in Feldkirch, Feldkirch, Vorarlberg, Austria; died on 15 Jul 1513 in Feldkirch, Feldkirch, Vorarlberg, Austria. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: L21D-GDB

Notes:

Born 1446 in Feldkirch, Voralberg, Austria and died in 1518. Hugo is mentioned in he 1479 writings in the Turmknopf of the church of St Nikolaus in Feldkirch, Voralberg, Austria. Herr von Feldkirch "bey Alga in Schwaben, aus dem uralten Geschlecht derer Mörlinen von Adlichen Eltern beyder Linien gezeuget".
Married around 1475/90 to Lucia Ellenbog. Lucia was born around 1459 and died on 15 Jul 1513 in Feldkirch.

George married Lauberger, Ursula. Ursula was born in UNKNOWN in Germany; died in DECEASED in Germany; was buried in Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Born 1402 in Feldkirch and died in Feldkirch, Voralberg, Austria

Miscellaneous: Jodocus Morlin and seine Nachkommen (Karina Kulbach-Fricke), Birth place and year.