Samuel Rodigast
Samuel Rodigast (* October 19, 1649 in Gröben at Jena, † March 19, 1708 in Berlin) was a German poet.
He is regarded as the author of the hymn text What God does is well done; Further, he wrote numerous poems.
Life
Samuel Rodigast attended high school in Weimar and studied in Jena. 1671 he received his master's degree and held in Jena henceforth philosophical lectures. His college, he remained a lifelong; again and again he took over the chairmanship in promotion procedures. From his scholarship (and its scholarly pride ) testifies to the 180-page folio catalog of his library, which he left in 1708 to print. In 1680 he became vice-principal and in 1698 director of the high school to the Grey Monastery in Berlin. In the Church of the Friary he was also buried, as he had not changed his life work, although a professorship in Jena he had been offered, among other things.
Rodigast is mentioned in Theodor Fontane's novel Mrs. Jenny Treibel as pious sealing Schulmann.
What God does is well done!
In Jena Rodigast may have sealed the text to the well-known hymn to award his sick friend, the cantor Severus Gastorius, comfort - or even because Gastorius wished for a song for his funeral. This is said to have then set to music the work. The circumstances surrounding the origin of the song, however, are controversial in the research. What God does is well done was a favorite song of King Frederick William III. , At his funeral, it was also sung. Even today, sometimes heard at funerals the song. In praise of God, it is under the number 294, to see the Protestant hymnal under No. 372.
The first verse is not from Rodigast itself but by Michael Altenburg; the rest of the text leans thematically to Deuteronomy 32.4 in LUT.
Johann Sebastian Bach used the song in at least four different cantatas. His chorale cantata from 1724, What God does is well done, BWV 99, is based on the complete, vice -compacted in the middle stanzas chorale. The 1726 created Cantata BWV 98 uses only the first verse, while in the resulting 1732-1735 Cantata BWV 100 all six verses of the song are set to music. In the early cantata Weeping, Lamenting, Fearing, Hesitating, BWV 12, from the Weimar period, the last sixth stanza forms the final chorale.
Works ( selection)
- Spes in fundo immersive Triassic ante diem novissimum spersandorum. Bielcke, Jena 1686
- Gedancken about the words of Matt. cap. 20 v. 16 and cap. 22 v. 14, Frankfurt and Leipzig, 1733
As it was expected of an educated clergy of his time, held and published Samuel Rodigast numerous funeral orations.