In Gottes Namen fahren wir, Sein heilger Engel geh uns für

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In Gottes Namen fahren wir, Sein heilger Engel geh uns für

Author: Nikolaus Herman
Tune: [In Gottes Namen fahren wir] (55555)
Published in 10 hymnals

Representative Text

1 In Gottes Namen fahren wir,
sein Hülf und Gnad begehren wir;
des Vaters Güt behüt uns heut,
bewahr auch unser Seel und Leib.
Kyrieleis.

2 Christus sei unser Geleitsmann
bleib stetig bei uns auf der Bahn,
und wend von uns des Feindes List,
auch was sein'm Wort zuwider ist.
Kyrieleis.

3 Der heilge Geist auch ob uns halt
mit seinen Gaben mannigfalt.
Er tröst und stärk uns in der Noth,
und führ uns wieder heim zu Gott.
Kyrieleis.

Source: Evang.-Lutherisches Gesangbuch #561

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Author: Nikolaus Herman

Herman, Nicolaus, is always associated with Joachimsthal in Bohemia, just over the mountains from Saxony. The town was not of importance till the mines began to be extensively worked about 1516. Whether Herman was a native of this place is not known, but he was apparently there in 1518, and was certainly in office there in 1524. For many years he held the post of Master in the Latin School, and Cantor or Organist and Choirmaster in the church. Towards the end of his life he suffered greatly from gout, and had to resign even his post as Cantor a number of years before his death. He died at Joachimsthal, May 3, 1561. (Koch, i. 390-398; Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, xii. 186-188, &c.) He was a great friend and helper of J. Mathesius (q.v.)… Go to person page >

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