Johannes Heringsdorf

Johannes Heringsdorf , also Herringsdorf (born May 4, 1606 in Neuenkirchen (Melle) , † February 20, 1665 in Paderborn ) was a German Jesuit and hymn poet.

Life

Heringsdorf grew up Protestant and studied in Herford and Hildesheim . He converted to the Roman Catholic Church and entered the Society of Jesus as a novice in Trier in 1629 . He was sent to Neuss to study philosophy and worked as a teacher in Hersfeld in 1632/1633 . When he returned to Trier, he met Friedrich Spee . From 1634 to 1637 he went to Cologne to study theology ; he spent the tertiary year in Emmerich . For more than a decade he taught at Jesuit colleges in Siegen from 1641 to 1652, Neuss and Münstereifel , where he also worked as a librarian and choir director.

In the following years he worked as a missionary in the Diocese of Osnabrück . After two years in Paderborn (1657–1659) he went to Cologne, where he is proven as pastor for the prisons and hospitals in 1663/1664, and then returned to Paderborn.

meaning

Heringsdorf developed an aftereffect in the history of Catholic church music in Germany that can hardly be underestimated with the publication of his hymn book Psalteriolum cantionum catholicarum, first published in 1633, and its German version Geistlich Psalterlein . Both saw numerous new editions up to 1868 and still had a strong influence on Heinrich Bone . Various songs by Friedrich Spee were first printed in them; the 1710 edition also contains the earliest print by Veni, veni, Emmanuel .

Works

• Psalteriolum cantionum catholicarum. Cologne 1633
• Spiritual Psalter. Cologne 1637
• Spiritual psalter, in which exquisite old and new church chants are composed alongside the lovely psalms of David. Cologne 1638
• Psalteriolum harmonicum. Cologne 1642
• Sirene's symphoniacae, sive hymni sacri quaternis vocibus per diversa anni tempora concinendi, in pios fidelium usus Paderbornae collecti. [Sl]: Peter Metternich 1678

literature

• Theo Hamacher: The Psalteriolum cantionum, the Geistliche Psalterlein u. her editor P. Johannes Heringsdorf SJ. In: Westfälische Zeitschrift 110 (1960), p. 285 ff.
• Theo Hamacher:  Her (r) ingsdorf, Johannes. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 620 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Johannes Heringsdorf. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Col. 767.