Wolfgang Herbst (liturgist)

Wolfgang Herbst (born March 31, 1933 in Chemnitz ) is a German Protestant theologian in the field of liturgical science and church musician .

Career

After studying theology in Leipzig , Heidelberg and Erlangen and obtaining a doctorate as a Dr. theol. in church history ( doctoral supervisor : Walther von Loewenich , Erlangen). This was followed by a study of church music at the State University of Music in Frankfurt am Main with diploma examination A. Afterwards he was cantor and organist at the St. Cyriakus Church in Frankfurt-Rödelheim (1956–1961), at the St. Martini Church in Bremen-Lesum (1961–1967) and at the Braunschweig Cathedral of St. Blasii (1968–1975). From 1976 to 1998 he worked as a professor at the University of Church Music in Heidelberg and was also its rector. He is the author of liturgical and hymnological works.

Fonts (selection)

Books

• Johann Sebastian Bach and Lutheran mysticism. Erlangen 1958 (Diss. Theol., University of Erlangen, 1958).
• as editor: Sources on the history of Protestant worship from the Reformation to the present. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1968; 2nd, completely revised edition: Protestant service. Sources on its story. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1992.
• Composer and songwriter of the evangelical hymn book. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1999.
• as editor: Who is who in the hymnal? Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001.
• Silent Night! Holy Night! The success story of a Christmas carol. Atlantis music book, Zurich / Mainz 2002.
• Kapellenberg. Childhood novel. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2013.

Articles (selection)

• The fate of professional musicians in the 16th and 17th centuries as reflected in the fairy tale of the Bremen Town Musicians. In: Wiltrud Drechsel (Ed.): Migrant work. Poverty and the compulsion to travel (= contributions to the social history of Bremen. H. 7). University, Bremen 1984.
• The rebirth of church music and its political context. Oskar Söhngen's way and work reflected in his publications. In: Dietrich Schuberth (ed.): Church music in National Socialism. Ten lectures. Merseburger, Kassel 1995, pp. 83-97.
• The religious and the political conscience. Comments on the ceremonial sermons on the occasion of the centenary of the Reformation in the Electorate of Saxony. In: Schütz yearbook . 18: 25-38 (1996).
• The two Chemnitz Ladegast organs In: ARS ORGANI, Volume 51, No. 2, 2003, pp. 68–75.
• The song about the “rotten bones” and his theological foster father Anton Stonner. In: Church contemporary history . Vol. 19 (2006), H. 2, pp. 469-480.
• Hugo Distler and the creation of a legend. In: Schütz yearbook . Vol. 31 (2009), pp. 15-22.

Web links

• Literature by and about Wolfgang Herbst in the catalog of the German National Library