Heinrich Held (hymn poet)

Heinrich Held (born July 21, 1620 in Guhrau , Duchy of Glogau , † August 16, 1659 in Stettin ) was a Protestant hymn poet .

Coats of arms of their hero called Hagelsheimer in Johann Siebmacher's Wappenbuch from 1605, plate 212, Nürnbergische Erbare Geschlechts

Held came from a long-established family in Guhrau. The coat of arms of the old Nuremberg dynasty of the Held, known as Hagelsheimer , was also awarded to the Silesian Held family in a letter of arms on July 3, 1589 in Prague by Emperor Rudolf II City bailiff of Guhrau was, namely his sons Bartholomeus, mayor of Guhrau (and maternal grandfather of Sebastian Hempel (1593–1650), director of the court in Stettin, raised to the Swedish nobility in 1648), Valentin, city judge of Guhrau (and grandfather Heinrich Helds), and Andreas Held, the latter master of the butcher's guild in Guhrau. Sebastian Held von Hagelsheim, who became mayor of Herrnstadt , also descended from one of the brothers who received the imperial letter of arms . His son was Gottfried Held von Hagelsheim (1670–1724), margravial brandenburg-Bavarian personal physician.

Because of the Counter Reformation, Held's family moved in 1628 from his birthplace Guhrau to Fraustadt, 30 km away . His attendance at the grammar school in Thorn is documented around 1637 . From 1637 to 1640 he studied law in Königsberg . About four years followed during which he worked as a lawyer in Szczecin. He had found admission with a great cousin, the Pomeranian court president Sebastian Hempel. When Held was asked by the poet Andreas Tscherning (1611–1659) to continue his studies in Rostock, this first phase of life in Szczecin ended. Around 1647/1648 he finished his law studies at the University of Rostock . He then worked for a short time in East Prussia as a private tutor . Duke Gustav Adolf von Mecklenburg made it possible for him to go on an educational trip that took him to Holland, England and France. He then returned to Fraustadt and worked as a lawyer around 1651. In 1657 he became city secretary in Altdamm near Stettin . From 1658 he was chamberlain and councilor there.

His poetic work can be assigned to the First Silesian School of Poetry .

The present Evangelical Hymnbook (EG) contains the Advent song written by Held, thank God through all the world (No. 12) and the Pentecost song Come, o come, you spirit of life (No. 134).

Works

• Come, come, you spirit of life ( EG 134)

literature

• Methodist hymn book. Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-89725-031-4 .
• Evangelical hymn book. Leipzig 1994, ISBN 3-374-01493-3 .
• Hugo Jentsch :  Hero, Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 680.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ From Hempel nr 1669 (Retrieved March 4, 2019.)
2. ^ ^{A b} Kulturportal West Ost: Held, Heinrich . (Accessed March 4, 2019.)
3. ↑ A royal Prussian noble renovation and knighthood with the same coat of arms and the title of Hagelsheim , was then granted to Benjamin Gottfried Held, Lord of Kapatschütz near Trebnitz , on March 8, 1759 . See GHdA , Adelslexikon , Volume V, Volume 84 of the complete series, Limburg an der Lahn 1984, p. 90 f.
4. ↑ Wolfgang Herbst (ed.): Wer ist wer im Gesangbuch , Göttingen 2001, p. 137 f.
5. ↑ Come on, you spirit of life at ingeb.org