Bartholomäus Ringwaldt

Bartholomew Ringwaldt (* November 28, 1532 in Frankfurt ( Oder); † ca 1599 in Langenfeld near Zielenzig; Długoszyn today at Sulęcin, Poland ) was a didactic poet and Lutheran theologian.

Life and work

Ringwaldt was in the Brandenburg Neumark, where he died in 1598-1600 since 1578 pastor to Langenfeld. Among the best known among his spiritual songs ( new edition, Hall 1858) include Lord Jesus Christ, you highest good and it is most certainly the time to resealing the sequence Dies irae of the Latin Mass for the Dead. In his didactic poem The pure truth ( first Erfurt 1585 ) it is demonstrated " as a secular and spiritual warrior should behave in his profession ". Another didactic poem of Ringwaldt, the Christian warning the faithful Eckart (Frankfurt (Oder), 1590), contains a report of a vision of the " description of the condition in the heavens and the hells, including all opportunity, joy and bliss of the godly, and Oh and woe of the Damned ". The Speculum mundi, a fine comedy depicted in how evil faithful to a number of places preachers who speak the truth, will behave (Frankfurt (Oder), 1592) is one of the better customs dramatic paintings of that time.

Johann Sebastian Bach composed in 1724 a chorale cantata Herr Jesu Christ, du highest good, BWV 113 and individual verses of the song used in other cantatas.