Joachim Neander

Joachim Neander

Joachim Neander (Neumann) (1650 - May 31 1680) was a German Reformed (Calvinist) Church teacher, theologian and hymn writer whose most famous hymn, "Praise to The Lord, The Almighty, the King of Creation" (German: "Lobe den Herren, den mächtigen König der Ehren") is generally regarded as one of the greatest hymns of praise of the Christian church and appears in most major hymnals.

Neander wrote about 60 hymns and provided tunes for many of them. He is considered by many to be the first important German hymnist after the Reformation and is regarded as the outstanding hymn writer of the German Reformed Church.

Joachim Neander was born in Bremen, the son of a Latin teacher. His grandfather, a musician, had changed the family name from the original "Neumann" ("New man" in English) to the Greek form Neander following the fashion of the time. After the death of his father he could not afford to study at a famous university. He therefore studied theology in his home town from 1666 to 1670. At first, his heart was not in it. It was only when he heard a sermon of Theodor Undereyk (shortly before the end of his course) that his beliefs became serious.

In 1671 he became a private tutor in Heidelberg, and in 1674 he became a teacher in a Latin school in Düsseldorf, one step before becoming a minister. While living there, he liked to go to the nearby valley of the Düssel river, nature being the inspiration for his poems. He also held gatherings and services in the valley, at which he gave sermons. The valley (German "thal" modernized to "tal") was renamed in his honor in the early 19th century, and became famous in 1856 when the remains of the "Homo neanderthalensis" (Neanderthal Man) were found there.

In 1679 Neander became a pastor in Bremen, as his popularity with the common people had caused problems with the church administration in Düsseldorf. One year later, at the age of 30, he died of tuberculosis.

External links

* [http://www.ponderanew.org The Ponder Anew Foundation] , which preserves one of Neander's best known works, "Praise to the Lord, the Almighty"


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