Johann Heermann (hymn poet)

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Johann Heermann

Johann Heermann , also Johannes Heermann (born October 11, 1585 in Raudten , Duchy of Glogau , Silesia , † February 17, 1647 in Lissa ) was a German hymn poet of the Baroque period .

Life

The son of a furrier first attended the Latin school in Fraustadt and 1602–1604 the Breslauer Elisabet-Gymnasium . He then studied theology at the University of Strasbourg , and in 1608 he was in Brieg for poet laureate crowned. From 1611 he held the parish office in Köben near Glogau . City fire, plague, war plundering, family suffering , and the Counter-Reformation shaped this time in Silesia, so that he had to give up his office in Köben as early as 1638 and retired to Lissa.

As a song poet he was influenced by Martin Opitz and his poetry reform. His work has a formative effect on Andreas Gryphius , Paul Gerhardt and others. He composed about 400 songs. Heermann is described as a "singer of tribulation and struggle, but also of unbroken courage to believe".

First publications can be found in Devota musica cordis, Hauß- and Hertz-Musica ; Hymns like O God, you pious God , dearest of Jesus, what have you done wrong and O Jesus Christ, true light have passed into the Protestant and Catholic hymn books and are still in use today. From Herzliebster Jesus, what have you done wrong , there are also several English translations, including by Catherine Winkworth from 1863 under the title O dearest Jesus, what hast thou broken law? . What will you grieve yourself became the basis for Bach's chorale cantata What will you grieve yourself in 1724 , BWV 107 .

Heermann also published ascetic writings, e. B. Heptalogus Christi (Berlin 1856) and the teaching poems: Praecepta moralia et sententiae and Exercitium pietatis (Latin and German, Breslau 1886), as well as the collection of poems Teutsche Poemata (1640).

The Johann-Heermann-Haus retirement home (completed in 1968) was named after him in Bielefeld-Brackwede .

Memorial days

Literature (selection)

List of works and references

  • Gerhard Dünnhaupt : Johannes Heermann (1585–1647) . In: Personalbibliographien zu den Druck des Barock , Volume 3, Stuttgart: Hiersemann 1991, pp. 2036–2082, ISBN 3-7772-9105-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Matin Janke: Johannes Heermann, the "Silesian Job" . In: Association of former Elisabetaner Breslau: Elisabetgymnasium Breslau 1293–1993. ... on the way through the centuries . Commemorative publication for the founding anniversary. Sindelfingen 1993, pp. 90-92
  2. ↑ Heermann, Johannes . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 8, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 275.
  3. ↑ 1630 a. ö .; new ed. by Ph. Wackernagel, Stuttgart. 1856
  4. ^ Diakonie Bielefeld . Retrieved January 2, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Heermann, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heermann, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hymn poets of the baroque period
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1585
PLACE OF BIRTH Raudten , Duchy of Glogau , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 1647
Place of death Lissa