Johannes Hermann

Johann Hermann was a German hymn writer in the 16th century. 1636 he is in Joseph Clauders third part of psalmodia nova as a poet of the formerly well-known New Year song Jesu, nun sei led famous in this new year. 1593, the song was first published in the Dresden Hymns, but there without the poet's name. The author of the article in the General German Biography gives the name Hermann additional senior and argues that person should not be confused with the hymn writer Johann Heermann or the cantor Nicholas Herman. The confusion with Johann Heerman came from Albert Knapp. The librarian Christian Gottlieb Jöcher however, suspected, Johann Hermann was mixed with an equal person who had worn the nickname Italus equate. This can be demonstrated as a Lutheran theologian in Wittenberg from 1548 to 1568. Voice so provides, the ADB - author, this Italus works attributed to Johann Hermann could clearly be attributed in yokes. Among these writings Italus ' there is a Abmahnurkunde to his son, who had converted to the Catholic faith; the physician Johann Hermann. Because of the same name it, the author further makes sense to give the hymn writer the additional senior.