Ludmilla Elisabeth of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt

Ludmilla Elisabeth von Schwarzburg- Rudolstadt (also Ludomilla or Ludämilie ) (* April 7, 1640, † March 12, 1672 in Rudolstadt ) was a countess of Schwarzburg- Rudolstadt and German hymn poet.

Life

Ludmilla Elisabeth was a daughter of Ludwig Günther von Schwarzburg- Rudolstadt and his wife Countess Emilie of Oldenburg. Her father died in 1646 and she was strictly Protestant brought up by her mother.

Inspired by her sister, Juliane Aemilie, the scientifically and artistically gifted Ludmilla tried early on to lock Friedenburg in the poetry of hymns. Significant influence on she had also Ahasuerus Fritsch, who later became chancellor of her brother Albrecht Anton.

After the death of his mother in 1670 Ludmilla lived with her ​​three sisters in Rudolstadt, the residence of his brother. A year later Ludmilla's engagement with Christian Wilhelm, later to become the Prince of Schwarzburg- Sondershausen. But Ludmilla Elisabeth died in 1672 along with two of her sisters during a measles epidemic.

Their hymns were in 1687 under the title The Voice of the girlfriend, di Spiritual Songs, which publishes manufactured from rutting and bit the end beharrter Jesus love and used Weiland the Hochgebohrne Countess and Miss Ludämilia Elizabeth, Countess and Miss Schwartz Castle and Hohenstein's Christian Blessed Andenckens in Rudolstadt. Some of their songs, including Jesus, Jesus, nothing but Jesus, Schaff in me, O God, a pure heart and worry, Father, you worry, were still present until the 20th century in German hymnals. The latter is still in the Swedish translation of the Swedish hymnal of 1986 ( No. 554).