Mosheim, Joham Lorenz (1694-1755)

The famous Lutheran Church historian, made the first impartial investigation of the Servetus controversy, and marks a reaction of judgment in favor of Servetus, in two monographs, Geschichte des berühmten Spanischen Arztes Michael Serveto, Helmstaedt, 1748, 4° (second vol. of his Ketzergeschichte); and Neue Nachrichten von Serveto, 1750. He had first intrusted his materials to a pupil, Henr. Ab. Allwoerden, who published a Historia Michaelis Serveti, Helmstadii, 1727 (238 pp., with a fine portrait of Servetus and the scene of his execution) but as this book was severely criticised by Armand de la Chapelle, the pastor of the French congregation at the Hague, Mosheim wrote his first work chiefly from copies of the acts of the trial of Servetus at Geneva (which are verified by the publication of the original documents in 1844), and his second work from the trial at Vienne, which were furnished to him by a French ecclesiastic. Comp. Henry, III. 102 sq.; Dyer, 540 sq.

Works on Servetus:

1750 Mosheim, Johann Lorenz, 1694?-1755. Neue Nachrichten von dem berühmten spanischen Arzte Michael Serveto, der zu Geneve ist verbrannt worden (Helmstaedt: Bey Christian Friedrich Weygand, 1750. 108 p.)

1748 Mosheim, Johann Lorenz, 1694?-1755. Anderweitiger Versuch einer vollständigen und unpartheyischen Ketzergeschichte (Helmstaedt: bey Christian Friedrich Weygand, 1748. [28], 500 [i.e. 532] p. : port. ; 27 cm.)

1728 Mosheim, Johann Lorenz, 1694?-1755. Historia Michaelis Serveti qvam praeside Io. Lavr. Moshemio ... Helmstadii (Stanno Bvcholtziano [1728] 7 p.l., 238, [6] p. front. (port.) 22 x 18 cm.)