Wackernagel, iv. pp. 128–130, gives three forms of the text of this anonymous hymn: No. 190 as the first of Zwey schöne newe geistliche Lieder, Nürnberg, N.D., [no date] c. 1560; No. 191, from an Enchiridion printed at Hamburg, 1565; No. 192, from the Psalmen und Leder, Lübeck, 1567.
In his Bibliographie, 1855, p. 279, he had cited it as in Neun schöne geistliche Lieder, Nürnberg, N.D., which he then dated 1565—probably too early.
According to Koch, v., 563, it had already appeared as Czemu sic trosczyss, in a Polish hymn-book ed. by Pastor Seklucyan, and pub. at Königsberg [now Kaliningrad, Russia] in 1559.
This hymn has often been ascribed to Hans Sachs. So Ambrosius Hannemann in his Prodromus Hymnologiæ, Wittenberg, 1633, Second 10, No. 8 entitles it Consolation against Tearfulness. Hans Sachs; and in Jeremias Weber’s G.B. [Gesangbuch], 1638, p. 578, it is entitled On Famine. A good family hymn. Written for the use of heads of households and their families by Hans Sachs, of Nürnberg, the well-known German poet.
The hymn has not however been traced in any of the works of Sachs, and the ascription to him seems to be without foundation.
Julian, p. 1234
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