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Mörlin, Michael

Male 1641 - 1708  (66 years)


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  • Name Mörlin, Michael  [1] 
    Map of Sommerda District    		 Map of Sommerda District
    Birth 19 Dec 1641  Olbersleben, Sommerda, Thüringen, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Gender Male 
    Education UNKNOWN  Leipzig University, Leipzig, Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Education UNKNOWN  University of Jena, Jena, Jena, Thüringen, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Education 18 Nov 1664  University of Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad, Russia Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Residence Between 1666 and 1667  Kaunas, Kauno, Lithuania Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Life Event Between 1667 and 1670  Viešvile, Jurbarkas, Lithuania Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Hanlehrer? 
    Life Event Between 1667 and 1670  Sovetsk, Kaliningrad, Russia Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Lutheran Pastor 
    Life Event Between 1670 and 1672  Chernyakhovsk, Kaliningrad, Russia Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Lutheran Cantor 
    Life Event Between 2 Sep 1672 and 21 Feb 1708  Gusev, Kaliningrad, Russia Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Lutheran Pastor 
    Death 21 Feb 1708  Gusev, Kaliningrad, Russia Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Burial 20 Mar 1708  Gusev, Kaliningrad, Russia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I12386  The Thoma Family
    Last Modified 20 Sep 2023 

    Father Mörlin, Gabriel,   b. 13 Jul 1585, Molschleben, Gotha, Thüringen, Germany Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1666, Olbersleben, Sommerda, Thüringen, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 80 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Lang, Agnes,   b. UNKNOWN, Germany Find all individuals with events at this locationd. DECEASED, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Relationship natural 
    Marriage UNKNOWN  Germany Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F5133  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Naps, Anna,   b. UNKNOWN, Chernyakhovsk, Kaliningrad, Russia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. DECEASED 
    Marriage 1695  Gusev, Kaliningrad, Russia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Mörlin, Johann Heinrich,   b. 1678, Kaliningrad, Russia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. DECEASED  [natural]
     2. Mörlin, Michel,   b. UNKNOWN, Gusev, Kaliningrad, Russia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. DECEASED  [natural]
    Family ID F11413  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 20 Sep 2023 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 19 Dec 1641 - Olbersleben, Sommerda, Thüringen, Germany Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsEducation - UNKNOWN - Leipzig University, Leipzig, Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsEducation - UNKNOWN - University of Jena, Jena, Jena, Thüringen, Germany Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsEducation - 18 Nov 1664 - University of Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad, Russia Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Between 1666 and 1667 - Kaunas, Kauno, Lithuania Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsLife Event - Hanlehrer? - Between 1667 and 1670 - Viešvile, Jurbarkas, Lithuania Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsLife Event - Lutheran Pastor - Between 1667 and 1670 - Sovetsk, Kaliningrad, Russia Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsLife Event - Lutheran Cantor - Between 1670 and 1672 - Chernyakhovsk, Kaliningrad, Russia Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsLife Event - Lutheran Pastor - Between 2 Sep 1672 and 21 Feb 1708 - Gusev, Kaliningrad, Russia Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 1695 - Gusev, Kaliningrad, Russia Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 21 Feb 1708 - Gusev, Kaliningrad, Russia Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - 20 Mar 1708 - Gusev, Kaliningrad, Russia Link to Google Earth
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    MOERLIN, Michael    		MOERLIN, Michael

  • 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.

  • Sources 
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      Kalb, Wilbur Hanson: Letter


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