Sebald Heyden

Sebald Heyden ( born December 8, 1499 Bruck, today district of Erlangen, † July 9, 1561 in Nuremberg ) was a German cantor, principals and spiritual poet.

Heyden graduated in Ingolstadt, where he graduated with a master's degree. From 1519 he worked as a cantor, and later as rector at the Nuremberg Hospital School, in 1525 he became the first rector of the Lutheran School of St. Sebald. His students included Nicholas Selnecker regular contact he used, inter alia, with Hans Sachs and Albrecht Dürer.

In the two stanzas of the song Passion O man, bewail thy sin big ( EC 76), is about the first and last of 23 stanzas of his "big passion " in which he recounted the sufferings of Christ poetic. It was created in 1530 after a tune by Matthias Greitter ( Original text: There are yet blessed all who walk in the true faith here ).