Category

German Protestant hymnwriters

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Nicolaus Zinzendorf

German protestant religious and social reformer, bishop of the Moravian Church (1700-1760)

Christian Fürchtegott Gellert

Anton Praetorius

Joachim Neander

German minister and composer

Christine of Hesse

Duchess Consort of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp

Gerhard Tersteegen

German theologian and hymn writer

Johannes Daniel Falk

German theologian (1487-1541)

Nikolaus Decius

German hymnwriter (1485–1546)

German musicologist and theologian

Wolfgang Musculus

Reformed theologian of the Reformation

Henry Ernest of Stolberg-Wernigerode

German politician, canon, provost and author of numerous hymns (1716-1778)

Christian David

German religious servant, missionary and carpenter

German mystic, hymn-writer and poet

German theologian and hymn writer

Ahasverus Fritsch

German jurist, poet and hymn writer (1629-1701)

Lucas Osiander the Elder

Lutheran minister and hymn writer

Abraham von Franckenberg

German writer (1593-1652)

German theologian and hymnwriter

Johann Burchard Freystein

German hymnwriter

Andreas Tscherning

German poet, hymn writer and literary theorist

Johann Georg Albinus

German pastor and hymnist (1624-1679)

German composer and poet

Johann Balthasar Schupp

German writer and academic

Bartholomäus Gesius

German Reformer & hymnwriter (1496–1542)

German jurist and hymnwriter (1603-1680)

German jurist, poet and composer (1621-1690)

Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger

German theologian (1816-1890)

Severus Gastorius

German cantor, composer

Christian Keimann

German hymnwriter and rector (1607-1662)

Johann Jacob Schütz

Martin Gotthard Schneider

German composer and director of church music (1930-2017)

Dieter Trautwein

German protestant hymnwriter and theologian (1928-2002)

German musician and theologian