Nikolaus Decius

Nikolaus Decius, other forms of the name Nicholas tech, Tecius, Degius, Deeg, Teach, Hovesch, a Curia (* 1485 in Hof (Saale ); † after 1546) was a German monk, pastor, cantor, church hymn writers and Prussian reformer.

Life and work

Decius attended the Latin school in his hometown and enrolled in 1501 at the University of Leipzig. After the acquisition of the Baccalaureus Artium in 1506 he became a monk of the Benedictine. From 1515 he worked as a pin preacher of the convent in Braunschweig and from 1519-1522 as a preacher at the Augustinian monastery Steterburg in Salzgitter. Subsequently, he was city schoolmaster in Hanover and a short time he returned to teach at the Ägidienschule to Brunswick. During his time preacher, he wrote a book of devotion in Low German and Low German liturgical hymns.

In the winter semester 1523/24 he went to Wittenberg under Martin Luther, whose ideas he was captured, to study theology. In Luther's advice to go he was appointed Duke of Pomerania Bogislaw to Stettin as a preacher. Here he helped Paul Rode up from 1527 when the introduction of the Reformation.

He was then a deacon in love city, a teacher at the Latin School in Bartenstein. 1540 he was appointed Albert I of Brandenburg -Ansbach to Königsberg as court preacher and sub ​​Kantor. 1543, he held a pastor's activity in Mühlhausen and took care of displaced Dutch refugees who settled there because of their reformed faith. In 1546 he left the place, then lose track of him.

To his legacy includes hymns, which still are in the Protestant hymnal. They are among the earliest creations of the forming evangelical church and should supplant the written Latin liturgical elements of the Gloria, Sanctus and Agnus Dei of the Roman mass. Even today, " God alone in the Hoh Kudos " and "O Lamb of God innocent of the tree of the Cross slaughtered " spread not only in the context of evangelical worship liturgy. The chorale " O Lamm Gottes innocent ... " is contained in a revised form in the input double chorus of St Matthew Passion by JS Bach.

Works

  • Only God in the Hoh Kudos ( 1526, EC 179, GL 457 )
  • O Lamb of God slaughtered innocent of the tree of the Cross (1531, EC 190, GL 470)
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