Christian Keymann

Christian Caiman, also Christian Keymann ( born February 27, 1607 German Pancrazio, Bohemia, † January 13, 1662 in Zittau ), was a German teacher, poet and Protestant hymn writer.

Life

Christian Caiman was born in 1607 as the son of a pastor in Grottau and Ullersdorf Zacharias Caiman in Pancrazio. As part of the Counter-Reformation the family Caiman from Bohemia had to flee to Zittau. He studied at the University of Wittenberg since 1627 and gained, funded by Erasmus Schmidt and August Buchner, in 1634 the degree of Master of Arts. Following Caiman was vice-principal and in 1639 rector of the Gymnasium in Zittau ( Upper Lusatia ). Caiman was honored in 1651 with the poet's crown and was an important educator and author of textbooks and school plays.

In 1662, he died after long suffering from a stroke.

In Zittau, a street is named after Christian Caiman.

Works

• Tabulae declinatorium ..., apud Graecos, Leipzig 1649, 1683
• Enchiridion grammaticum latinum, Jena 1649
• Small Gedächtnüß Bible - Mnemosyne sacra, Görlitz 1656, Leipzig 1652
• MICAE evangelicae, Zittau in 1655, Szczecin 1687
• Four plays, Zittau 1657 included therein: Samuel after Johann Förster, 1646; Susanna after Frischlin, 1648; Young Tobias, Freiberg 1641; The neugebohrene Jesus, the shepherds and wise men offenbahret, Görlitz 1646, reprint 1936
• Historia Iohannis Baptistae heroico metro Comprehensa. Wittenberg 1630
• Rhetorica ... versibus in Clusa hexametris. 1639, Leipzig 1659
• Compendium logices 1639, Leipzig 1652
• Arithmctica practica. Görlitz in 1639 ( with the logic of United To: paedia scholastica compendiosa Görlitz 1648. ).
• Rake Booklet. Leipzig 1641

His hymns have been widely used by Johann Sebastian Bach:

• Rejoice, you Christians all (EC 34), Bach in BWV 40
• My Jesus, I do not let (EC 402), Bach in the melodic version Andreas Hammerschmidt 1658 in the Cantatas BWV 70, 154, 157, the same chorale cantata BWV 124 and at the end of the first part of the early version of the St. Matthew Passion, also by Max Reger, there is a chorale cantata of the same name using the melodic version of Johann Ulich 1674
• Hail, Jesus kind