Heinrich Müller (theologian)

Heinrich Müller (18 October 1631 – 13/23 September 1675) was a German devotional author, Protestant writer of hymns, a Lutheran minister and theologian and a professor at the University of Rostock from 1647 to 1650.

Heinrich Müller attended the city school in Rostock and entered the University of Greifswald in 1647 on the advice of Johann Quistorp the Elder.

He also wrote a collection of cantatas that were published under the titles Geistliche Seelen-Musik (Spiritual Soul Music) and Himmlische Liebesflamme (Heavenly flame of love).

In his publication Geistliche Erquickungsstunden (Spiritual hours of refreshment) (1664-1666) he used the term Übermensch in the German language for the first time in the sense of a "godly man".

On January 24, 1654, Heinrich Müller married Magaretha Elisabeth, the daughter of the citizen and church leader in St. Marienkirche Michael Sibrand.