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Joachim Neander

1650 - 1680

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Joachim Neander (1650 – 31 May 1680) was a German Reformed (Calvinist) Church teacher, theologian and hymnwriter whose most famous hymn, Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of Creation (German: Lobe den Herren, den mächtigen König der Ehren) has been described by John Julian in his A Dictionary of Hymnology as "a magnificent hymn of praise to God, perhaps the finest creation of its author, and of the first rank in its class." Due to its popularity it has been translated several times into English—Catherine Winkworth being one of the translators in the 19th century—and the hymn has appeared 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 hymnwriter of the German Reformed Church. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joachim Neander is the 2,007th most popular writer (up from 2,046th in 2019), the 2,188th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,175th in 2019) and the 128th most popular German Writer.

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Among writers, Joachim Neander ranks 2,007 out of 7,302. Before him are Vasyl Stus, Langston Hughes, Ángel de Saavedra, 3rd Duke of Rivas, Bálint Balassi, Konstantin Ushinsky, and Bion of Smyrna. After him are Anne Golon, Alciphron, Hirokazu Kanazawa, Robert Chambers, Desanka Maksimović, and Yuan Zhen.

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Among people born in 1650, Joachim Neander ranks 11. Before him are Ahmad Khani, Jean Bart, Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel, Frederick Casimir Kettler, Anne Jules de Noailles, and Vincenzo Coronelli. After him are Robert de Visée, Princess Wilhelmine Ernestine of Denmark, Anthim the Iberian, Nell Gwyn, Christoph Arnold, and Fyodor Alexeyevich Golovin. Among people deceased in 1680, Joachim Neander ranks 24. Before him are John George II, Elector of Saxony, Tokugawa Ietsuna, Princess Elisabeth Sophie of Saxe-Altenburg, John Eudes, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, and Per Brahe the Younger. After him are Li Yu, Yun Hyu, Peter Lely, Frans Post, John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, and Pierre-Paul Riquet.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Joachim Neander ranks 2,189 out of 7,253. Before him are William, Duke of Brunswick (1806), Adolphus Frederick III, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1686), Heinrich von Brentano (1904), Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918), Heinrich von Plauen (1370), and Henrich Focke (1890). After him are Albert Bierstadt (1830), Hermann Burmeister (1807), Hans Loritz (1895), Petra Kelly (1947), Conradin Kreutzer (1780), and Konrad von Feuchtwangen (1230).

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Among WRITERS In Germany

Among writers born in Germany, Joachim Neander ranks 128. Before him are Adolph Freiherr Knigge (1752), Jakub Bart-Ćišinski (1856), Ludwig Uhland (1787), Basil Valentine (1394), Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1633), and Mina Witkojc (1893). After him are Katia Mann (1883), Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm (1723), Yehuda Amichai (1924), Elvira Madigan (1867), Johann Karl August Musäus (1735), and Gustav Schwab (1792).

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