Michael Hunold

Michael Hunold (born October 25, 1621 in Leipzig , † 1672 in Rochlitz ) was a German Protestant theologian and hymn poet .

Life

Michael Hunold was born in Leipzig on October 25, 1621, the son of a town musician. Having trained in a school in Altenburg , he moved to the University of Leipzig in 1642 and then to the University of Jena . He then worked in 1646 as a private tutor at Leisnig and became the principal of a school in Rochlitz. From 1649 he worked as a deacon at the St. Kunigunde Church there . In 1655 he was promoted to archdeacon and died in 1672 after a long and serious illness.

Hunold composed 16 sacred songs, some of which were taken over in hymn books and were particularly widespread at the end of the 17th century / beginning of the 18th century.

Works

• There is nothing saddened on earth, nothing can go to the heart as if poor widows are
• My Jesus is coming, my dying is there
• Disputatio de statu exinantionis, Christi ad Phil. II, 5-8 (1656)

literature

• Paul Christian Hilscher : The art of dying, according to the instructions of the last words of Christ, in the song: My Jesus is coming, my dying is there (Dresden 1716)
• Unknown author:  Hunold, Michael . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, p. 421.
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Hunold, Michael. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 1185-1186.