? - 1530 Person Name: Georg Grüenwald Topics: Twenty sixth Sunday after Trinity Sunday; Tjuesjette Søndag efter Trefoldigheds Fest Til Høimesse; Nyaarsdag Til Høimesse -Til Tredje Teksxtækkes Evangelium; New Years Day; Septuagesima Sunday; Søndag Seksagesima Til Aftengudstjeneste; Sexagesima Sunday; Second Sunday after Easter; Ordinary Prayer Day; Second Sunday after Trinity Sunday; Second Sunday after Trinity Sunday; Efterfølgelse, Jesu; Obedience of Jesus; Evangeliets Indbydelse; Gospel Invitaion; Naadetiden; Almindelig Bededag Til Aftengudstjeneste - Til Anden Tekstrækkes Lektie; Anden Søndag efter Paaske Til Aftengudstjeneste; Anden Søndag efter Trefoldiheds Fest Til Høimesse -Til Anden Tekstrækkes Evangelium; Anden Søndag efter Trefoldiheds Fest Til Høimesse -Til Tredje Tekstrækkes Evangelium; Søndag Septuagesima Til Høimesse -Til Anden Tekstrækkes Evangelium Author of "Kom hid til mig enhver især" in Salmebog for Lutherske Kristne i Amerika Grüenwald, Georg, was an Anabaptist shoemaker, who suffered martyrdom for his principles, being in 1530 burnt at the stake at Kopffstain, or Kufstein, on the Inn below Innsbruck. To him is ascribed, in a manuscript Anabaptist Chronicle now in the Town Library at Hamburg, the hymn:—
Kommt her zu mir, sagt Gottes Sohn. [Christ's Yoke.] Founded on St. Matt. xi. 28-30. Appeared as "Ain schöns newes Christlichs lyed," in 1530. Wackernagel, iii. pp. 128-133, gives this in 16 stanzas and three later forms. The form in V. Babst's Gesang-Buch, Leipzig, 1545, is that in common use as in the Unverfälschter Liedersegen 1851, No. 421. It has been generally ascribed to Hans Witzstadt of Wertheim, but Wackernagel in a long note decides in favour of Grüenwald.
The translations are (1) "Cum heir, sayis Goddis Sone to me," in the Gude and Godly Ballates, ed. 1568, folio 16 (1868, p. 25). (2) "Come hither! saith our blessed Lord," by J. C. Jacobi, 1725, p. 35 (1732, p. 121), repeated as No. 151 in pt. i. of the Moravian Hymn Book, 1754. (3) "Come hither, says the Son of God," by Dr. H. Mills, 1856, p. 47. (4) "Come hither, says our blessed Lord," by Dr. G. Walker, 1860, p. 80. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology
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