Author

Paul Gerhardt

1607–1676 · Gräfenheinichen, Saxony · Germany

Gerhardt pastored the great St. Nicholas Church in Berlin until 1666, when he lost the post for refusing an elector's edict he believed compromised Lutheran teaching. He wrote through the Thirty Years' War and buried four of his five children. More than 130 of his hymns appeared in his friend Johann Crüger's collections, and John Wesley and Catherine Winkworth later carried them into English.

Texts

5

Lived

1607–1676

Hymnals

2