Johann Rist

Johann Rist was born at Ottensen near Hamburg in 1607 and died at Wedel in 1667. A Lutheran pastor at Wedel from 1635, he was also a dramatist and a prolific poet; he was crowned imperial poet laureate in 1644 and ennobled in 1653, and he wrote hundreds of hymns.

The English versions here are Catherine Winkworth's in Lyra Germanica (1855).