Paul Gerhardt

Paul Gerhardt (12 March 1607 – 27 May 1676) was a German hymn writer.

Quotes

• O sacred head, now wounded,
  With grief and shame bowed down;
  Now scornfully surrounded
  With thorns, thy only crown.
  • Passion Corale [1656], based on twelfth century Latin hymn, st. 1

• Oh! make me Thine forever;
  And should I fainting be,
  Lord! let me never, never,
  Outlive my love to Thee!
  • Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 400.

External links

• Paul Gerhardt 1607-1676 from The Cyber Hymnal
• Theodore Brown Hewitt. Paul Gerhardt as a Hymn Writer and His Influence on English Hymnody New Haven: Yale University Press. 1918
• In Behalf of Paul Gerhardt and the Elenchus
• Paul Gerhardt's Spiritual Songs, trans. J. Kelly, 80 pages, 1867.