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Johann Mühlmann (Hymn-Writer)

Born: Born: July 28, 1573 - Wiederau, Pegau, Saxony, Germany
Died: November 14, 1613 - Leipzig, Saxony, Germany

Johann [Johannes] Mühlmann, was the son of Hieronymus Mühlmann, pastor at Pegau, near Leipzig. He studied at the Universities of Leipzig (M.A. January, 1597) and Jena, and was then for some time Saturday preacher at St. Thomas's Church in Leipzig. In 1599 he was appointed diaconus of the St. Wenzel Church in Naumburg, and in 1604 pastor at Laucha on the Unstrut. In the end of 1604 he became archidiaconus of the St. Nicholas Church at Leipzig, and, in 1607, was also appointed Professor of Theology in the University, and D.D. in 1612. He died of typhus at Leipzig in 1613. (Allgemeine Deutsch Biographie, xxii. 483; Goedeke's Grundriss, vol. iii., 1887, p. 151, &c.).

Johann Mühlmann was a staunch upholder of Lutheran orthodoxy, alike against Romanists and Calvinists. He was a great lover of the Psalms; his published sermons, as well as his hymns, are based on them, and almost his last words were Ps. lxiii., 3, "Thy lovingkindness is better than life." Wackernagel v. pp. 443-447, gives five hymns under his name, all of which are found in the Geistliche Psalmen, &c, published at Nürnberg in 1618, by J. Lauer. [The only known copy, in the Royal Library, Berlin, has lost its titlepage.]

Source: Hymnary.org Website (from John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, 1907)
Contributed by
Aryeh Oron (September 2018)

Texts of Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works

BWV 287

Chorale Texts used in Bach’s Vocal Works

Dank sei Gott in der Höhe (1618)

Bibliography

Johannes Mühlmann (Hymnary.org)
Mühlmann, Johannes (Deutsche Biographie) [German]
Johann Mühlmann (Wikipedia) [German]


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