Mörlin, Maximillian
1516 - 1584 (67 years)-
Name Mörlin, Maximillian [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7] Birth 14 Oct 1516 Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany 
[1, 3, 5, 6, 8] Gender Male Education 1533 University of Wittenberg, Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany [9] Life Event 1539 Pegau, Leipziger Land, Sachsen, Germany [9] Lutheran Pastor Life Event 1539 Zeitz, Burgenlandkreis, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany [9] Lutheran Pastor Life Event 1543 Schalkau, Sonneberg, Thüringen, Germany [6, 9] Lutheran Pastor Life Event 1544 Coburg, Bayern, Germany [9] Court Preacher Education 1546 University of Wittenberg, Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany [9] 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 [3] Lutheran Pastor Death 20 Apr 1584 Coburg, Bayern, Germany [1, 3, 5, 8] Burial Aft 20 Apr 1584 Coburg, Bayern, Germany [3] Person ID I3198 The Thoma Family Last Modified 20 Sep 2023
Father Mörlin, Jodocus, b. Between 3 Jul 1488 and 18 Mar 1489, Feldkirch, Feldkirch, Vorarlberg, Austria d. 15 Sep 1550, Westhausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany (Age 62 years) Relationship natural Mother Hausknecht, Anna, b. 1495, Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany d. 1544, Westhausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany (Age 49 years) Relationship Stepchild Marriage 1515 Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany [10] Family ID F4678 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Rhau, Anna, b. Between 1520 and 1524, Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany d. 29 Mar 1584, Coburg, Bayern, Germany (Age 64 years) Marriage 17 Jan 1581 Coburg, Bayern, Germany [1, 3, 8] Family ID F5552 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 20 Sep 2023
Family 2 Rosenthaler, Helena, b. 1505, Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Bayern, Germany d. 1547, Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Bayern, Germany (Age 42 years) Marriage 1541 Zeitz, Burgenlandkreis, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany Children 1. Mörlin, Helene, b. 1 Apr 1542, Zeitz, Burgenlandkreis, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany d. 28 Jul 1622, Rodach, Coburg, Bayern, Germany (Age 80 years) [natural]Family ID F11619 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 20 Sep 2023
Family 3 Rosenthaler, Ursula, b. 1519, Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Bayern, Germany d. 31 Jul 1580, Coburg, Bayern, Germany (Age 61 years) Marriage 1543 Schalkau, Sonneberg, Thüringen, Germany [5, 8, 11] Children 1. Mörlin, Appolonia, b. 1545, Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany d. 16 Jan 1584, Graba, Saalfeld-Rudolstadt, Thüringen, Germany (Age 39 years) [natural]2. Mörlin, Katharina, b. Abt 1550, Coburg, Bayern, Germany d. Apr 1587, Stressenhausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany (Age 37 years) [natural]3. Mörlin, Ursula, b. Abt 1554, Coburg, Bayern, Germany d. 25 Apr 1587, Coburg, Bayern, Germany (Age 33 years) [natural]4. Mörlin, Maximillian, b. 21 Apr 1555, Coburg, Bayern, Germany d. 17 Mar 1628, Coburg, Bayern, Germany (Age 72 years) [natural]5. Mörlin, Christoph, b. 8 Dec 1555, Coburg, Bayern, Germany d. 1558, Coburg, Bayern, Germany (Age 2 years) [natural]6. Mörlin, Cordula Anna, b. 12 Apr 1557, Coburg, Bayern, Germany d. 21 Apr 1584, Heldburg, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany (Age 27 years) [natural]7. Mörlin, Jobst, b. 29 May 1558, Coburg, Bayern, Germany d. 23 Jun 1558, Coburg, Bayern, Germany (Age 0 years) [natural]8. Mörlin, Joachim, b. 17 Jul 1559, Coburg, Bayern, Germany d. 13 May 1590, Coburg, Bayern, Germany (Age 30 years) [natural]9. Mörlin, Johann, b. 29 Sep 1560, Coburg, Bayern, Germany d. 10 May 1590, Coburg, Bayern, Germany (Age 29 years) [natural]10. Mörlin, Rebecca, b. 8 Mar 1562, Coburg, Bayern, Germany d. 2 Aug 1620, Coburg, Bayern, Germany (Age 58 years) [natural]11. Mörlin, Johann Heinrich, b. 22 Jan 1564, Jena, Jena, Thüringen, Germany d. 13 May 1590, Coburg, Bayern, Germany (Age 26 years) [natural]12. Mörlin, Friedrich, b. 11 Oct 1565, Jena, Jena, Thüringen, Germany d. 15 Jan 1567, Coburg, Bayern, Germany (Age 1 year) [natural]13. Mörlin, Gabriel, b. 22 Nov 1566, Jena, Jena, Thüringen, Germany d. 10 Apr 1584, Coburg, Bayern, Germany (Age 17 years) [natural]Family ID F6428 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 20 Sep 2023
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Birth - 14 Oct 1516 - Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany 
Education - 1533 - University of Wittenberg, Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany 
Life Event - Lutheran Pastor - 1539 - Pegau, Leipziger Land, Sachsen, Germany 
Life Event - Lutheran Pastor - 1539 - Zeitz, Burgenlandkreis, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany Marriage - 1541 - Zeitz, Burgenlandkreis, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany 
Life Event - Lutheran Pastor - 1543 - Schalkau, Sonneberg, Thüringen, Germany Marriage - 1543 - Schalkau, Sonneberg, Thüringen, Germany 
Life Event - Court Preacher - 1544 - Coburg, Bayern, Germany Education - Doctor of Theology - 1546 - University of Wittenberg, Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany Life Event - Lutheran Superintendent - 1546 - Coburg, Bayern, Germany 
Life Event - Pro Chancellor and Vice-Dean - 1564 - University of Jena, Jena, Jena, Thüringen, Germany 
Life Event - Lutheran Pastor - 1570 - Dillenburg, Lahn-Dill-Kreis, Hessen, Germany 
Life Event - Lutheran Pastor - 1572 - Siegen, Siegen-Wittgenstein, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany Life Event - Lutheran Pastor - 1573 - Coburg, Bayern, Germany Marriage - 17 Jan 1581 - Coburg, Bayern, Germany Death - 20 Apr 1584 - Coburg, Bayern, Germany Burial - Aft 20 Apr 1584 - Coburg, Bayern, Germany = Link to Google Earth
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Coburg and the House at Kirchhof 2 (A) Coburg and the House at Kirchhof 2 (B) MOERLIN, Max
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Licht am Abend Coburg and the House at Kirchhof 2 (C) Coburg the St. Moritz Church Coburg the St. Moritz Lutheran Church Coburg and St Moriz Church
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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
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