Johann Heermann

Johann Heermann was born at Raudten in Silesia in 1585 and died at Lissa (Leszno) in 1647. He was a Lutheran pastor at Köben from 1611, and his ministry was disturbed by illness and by the troubles of the Thirty Years' War; he left Köben for Lissa in 1638.

His hymns appeared in collections such as Devoti musica cordis (1630). The English versions here are Catherine Winkworth's in Lyra Germanica (1855).