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Paul Gerhardt (12 March 1607 – 27 May 1676) was a German theologian, Lutheran minister and hymnodist . Biography. Gerhardt was born into a middle-class family at Gräfenhainichen, a small town between Halle and Wittenberg. [1] . His father died in 1619, his mother in 1621. At the age of fifteen, he entered the Fürstenschule in Grimma.
PAUL WESTERMEYER is professor of church music and director of the Master of Sacred Music program at Luther Seminary, Saint Paul, Minnesota. He is the author of Let the People Sing:
Paul Gerhardt war ein evangelisch-lutherischer Theologe und gilt als einer der bedeutendsten deutschsprachigen Kirchenlieddichter.
Paul Gerhardt (b. Gräfenheinichen, Saxony, Germany, 1607; d. Lubben, Germany, 1676), famous author of Lutheran evangelical hymns, studied theology and hymnody at the University of Wittenberg and then was a tutor in Berlin, where he became friends with Johann Crüger.
Texts By Paul Gerhardt (622)AsAuthority LanguagesInstancesPaul Gerhardt, 1607-76 (Author)English2Paul Gerhardt (Author)English3Paul Gerhardt (Author)English2Paul Gerhardt (Author)English5PAUL GERHARDT, the people’s poet, and, next to Luther, the most popular hymnist of Germany, was trained in the school of affliction. Living and serving God in troublous times, he drank deeply of the cup of bitterness.
May 14, 2018 · German Christian hymn-writer. Apart from Luther's [1] own, his hymns are often held to be the finest of the Lutheran tradition. His hymns mark a transition from the objective orthodoxy of earlier Lutheran hymns to the personal piety of more modern compositions.
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His cler i cal friends all en cour aged him with hopes – he needed en cour age ment, for he was now 7 forty-four years of age, and still a home less can di date. But he did not de spair. He trusted in God, and wrote the hymn, Ich singe Dir mit Herz und Mund, Herr, meines Herzens Lust—.
