Quando em extremo aperto

Translator: Martinho Lutero Hasse

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baseado em: Joachim Camerarius

Joachim Camerarius, a learned nobleman, was born in Bamberg, 12 April 1500. He studied Greek in Leipzig in his youth alongside the "exercises of nobility," and became close friends with Melancthon. Camerarius organized a school at Nuremberg, and was then called to Württemberg as one of the first professors at the new University of Tübingen. He later returned to Leipzig, where he was professor of Greek and Latin. He died there 17 April 1774. From Camerarius came the Latin hymn "In tenebris nostrae et densa caligine mentis" (sometimes attributed to Melancthon), which Paul Eder translated into the German hymn: "Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein." --Gottfried Lebrecht Richter, Allgemeines biographisches Lexikon alter und neuer geistlicher… Go to person page >

Author: Paul Eber

Eber, Paul, son of Johannes Eber, master tailor at Kitzingen, Bavaria, was born at Kitzingen, Nov. 8, 1511. He was sent in 1523 to the Gymnasium at Ansbach, but being forced by illness to return home, was on his way thrown from horseback and dragged more than a mile, remaining as a consequence deformed ever after. In 1525 he entered the St. Lorentz school at Nürnberg, under Joachim Camerarius, and in 1532 went to the University of Wittenberg, where he graduated 1536, and thereafter became tutor in the Philosophical Faculty. He was appointed Professor of Latin in 1544, then in 1557 Professor of Hebrew and Castle preacher, and in 1558 Town preacher and General Superintendent of the Electorate, receiving in 1559 the degree D.D. from the Unive… Go to person page >