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Martin Rinkart, or Rinckart (23 April 1586, Eilenburg – 8 December 1649) was a German Lutheran clergyman and hymnist. He is best known for the text to "Nun danket alle Gott" (" Now thank we all our God ") which was written c. 1636.
Rinkart was a prolific hymn writer. In Rinkart's Jesu Hertz-Büchlein (Leipzig, 1636), "Nun danket alle Gott" appears under the title "Tisch-Gebetlein", as a short prayer before meals. The exact date is debated, but it is known that it was widely sung by the time the Peace of Westphalia was signed in 1648.
The reformer Martin Luther, a prolific hymnodist, regarded music and especially hymns in German as important means for the development of faith.. Luther wrote songs for occasions of the liturgical year (Advent, Christmas, Purification, Epiphany, Easter, Pentecost, Trinity), hymns on topics of the catechism (Ten Commandments, Lord's Prayer, creed, baptism, confession, Eucharist), paraphrases of ...
These include Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724–1803), who wrote "Die ihr Christi Jünger seid" and "Herr, du wollst uns vorbereiten" and Matthias Claudius, writer of the poem "Wir pflügen und wir streuen" which was translated as the Thanksgiving hymn "We Plough the Fields and Scatter". His popular poetry expressed a simple Biblical faith ...
Hallgrímur Pétursson's most notable work is Passion Hymns (Passíusálmar or, in full, "Historia pínunnar og dauðans Drottins vors Jesú Kristi, með hennar sérlegustu lærdóms-, áminningar- og huggunargreinum, ásamt bænum og þakkargjörðum, í sálmum og söngvísum með ýmsum tónum samsett og skrifuð anno 1659": "The history of the pain and death of our Lord, Jesus Christ, with ...
She was the most productive of German female hymn-writers, almost 600 hymns being attributed to her. Her hymns, such as " Wer weiß, wie nahe mir mein Ende ", are full of a deep love for her Saviour. She published Geistliche Lieder, etc. , Rudolstadt, 1683; Kuhlwasser in grosser Hitze des Creutzes , Rudolstadt, 1685; Tägliches Morgen- Mittags ...
His famous hymn Wer nur den lieben Gott läßt walten appeared in 1641. The Pegnesische Blumenorden (a poet's society in Nürnberg named after the river Pegnitz) accepted Neumark as a member in 1679. He carried on an extensive but not untroubled correspondence with the society's president, Sigmund von Birken, who acted as his literary agent.
Nikolaus Decius (also Degius, Deeg, Tech a Curia, and Nickel von Hof; [1] c. 1485 – 21 March 1541 [2] (others say 1546 [3]) was a German monk, hymn-writer, Protestant reformer and composer. Biography