LV. Paul Gerhardt

1607-1676. Gerhardt was a Lutheran pastor who is preëminent as a writer of hymns for worship. His psalmody has less of the militant spirit than Luther’s, his voice being the voice of German Protestantism as chastened by the terrible sufferings of the great war. The selections follow Wolff’s edition in Kürschner’s Nationalliteratur, Vol. 31.