Johann Franck
Johann Franck also, Frank , (born June 1, jul. / 11. June 1618 greg. In Guben , † June 18 jul. / 28. June 1677 greg. ) Was a German jurist and poet known hymns , but also secular Poems .
Life
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Johann Franck was the son of a lawyer who died in 1620. His uncle, the city judge Adam Tielckau, took care of him. After attending the Latin school in Guben, he attended the schools in Cottbus and Stettin as well as the grammar school in Thorn . From June 28, 1638 he studied law in Königsberg . There he was influenced by the poet of popular songs Simon Dach , to whose circle of friends and poets Kürbishütte he belonged. At his mother's request, he returned to Guben at Easter 1640, which at that time suffered badly from the Swedish troops during the Thirty Years' War . After returning from a trip to Prague in May 1645, he worked as a lawyer. In 1648 he became a councilor and in 1661 mayor of Guben. Since 1671 he represented his hometown in the state parliament of Niederlausitz as the state elder .
Johann Franck created 110, mainly sacred songs, which were included in most of the Protestant German church hymn books (see: History of the sacred song on the European continent ). Most of his works have lost their importance; only two of his songs can be found in the Evangelical Hymnal. The current church hymn books in Sweden and Swedish-speaking Finland also contain at least 4 of his songs. His best songs include, for example, Schmücke dich, o dear soul (EG 218), Jesus, my joy (EG 396), you, o beautiful world building and others, some of which were also set to music by Johann Crüger . In his work he shows a relationship with Paul Gerhardt . His secular poems are mostly occasional poems, but also love poems and verses related to nature and home.
Fonts
- Johann Francken's hundred-tone Our Father's harp. Wittenberg 1646.
- Poetic works. Frankfurt (Oder) 1648.
- Spiritual Sion. 6 parts. Guben 1674 (the same udT Teutsche Gedichte , Wittenberg no year)
- Julius Leopold Pasig (Ed.): Johann Franck's Geistliche Lieder. Edited unchanged after the last edition. Choice of 56 songs. Gebhardt, Grimma 1846 ( digitized copy from the Bavarian State Library ).
Settings
- Johann Sebastian Bach created the motet of Jesus, my delight in the text by Johann Franck; his Last Supper song Adorn yourself, oh dear soul, is the basis for the Bach cantata of the same name ( BWV 180).
literature
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : Franck, Johann. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , column 78.
- Gerhard Dünnhaupt : Johann Franck (1618-1677). In: Personal bibliographies on Baroque prints. Volume 3. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-7772-9105-6 , pp. 1551-54 (list of works and literature).
- Hugo Jentsch : Johann Franck von Guben. Source-based contributions to the story of his life. Guben 1877.
- Hugo Jentsch: Franck, Johann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 211 f.
- Kate Lorenzen: Franck (Frank), Johann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 317 ( digitized version ).
- Martin Petzoldt: Johann Sebastian Bach's arrangements of the song <Jesu Meine Freude> by Johann Franck. In: Music and Church. Vol. 55, 1985, pp. 213-225.
Web links
- Publications by and about Johann Franck in VD 17 .
- Digitized prints by Johann Franck in the catalog of the Herzog August Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Markus Rathey: 396 - Jesus, my joy . In: Wolfgang Herbst , Ilsabe Seibt (Hrsg.): Liederkunde zum Evangelischen Gesangbuch . No. 16 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-525-50302-7 , pp. 59–64 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Franck, Johann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Frank, Johann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and hymn poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 11, 1618 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Guben |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 28, 1677 |
| Place of death | Guben |