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Heermann, Johann

(1585–1647). B. Raudten, Ger.; educ. Fraustadt, Breslau, Brieg; tutor Brieg and Strasbourg; returned to Raudten 1610; pastor Köben 1611; retired to Lissa, Posen, 1638; suffered in Thirty* Years' War, but bore trials with courage and patience; hymnist. Hymns include “Ach Jesu, dessen Treu'”; “Frühmorgens, da die Sonn' aufgeht”; “O Jesu Christe, wahres Licht”; “O Jesu, du mein Bräutigam”; “Herzliebster Jesu, was hast du verbrochen”; “O Gott, du frommer Gott”; “Gottlob, die Stund' ist kommen.”

Johann Heermanns geistliche Lieder, ed. P. Wackernagel (Stuttgart, 1856); K. F. Ledderhose, Christliche Biographien, V: Das Leben Johann Heermann's von Köben (Heidelberg, 1857).


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