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Joachim Neander (Neumann) (
1650 -
May 31 1680) was a German
Reformed (
Calvinist)
Church teacher,
theologian and
hymn writer whose most famous hymn,
Praise to The Lord, The Almighty, the King of Creation (German:
Lobe den Herren, den mächtigen König der Ehren) is generally regarded as one of the greatest hymns of praise of the
Christian church and appears in most major hymnals.
Neander wrote about 60 hymns and provided tunes for many of them. He is considered by many to be the first important German hymnist after the
Reformation and is regarded as the outstanding hymn writer of the German Reformed Church.
Joachim Neander was born in
Bremen, the son of a
Latin teacher. His grandfather, a musician, had changed the family name from the original "Neumann" ("New man" in English) to the
Greek form Neander following the fashion of the time. After the death of his father he couldn't afford to study at a famous university. He therefore studied
theology in his home town from
1666 to
1670. At first, his heart wasn't in it. It was only when he heard a sermon of
Theodor Undereyk (shortly before the end of his course) that his beliefs became serious.
In
1671 he became a private tutor in
Heidelberg, and in
1674 he became a teacher in a Latin school in
Düsseldorf, one step before becoming a minister. While living there, he liked to go to the nearby valley of the
Düssel river, nature being the inspiration for his poems. He also held gatherings and services in the valley, at which he gave
sermons. The
valley (German
thal modernized to
tal) was renamed in his honor in the early
19th century, and became famous in
1856 when the remains of the
Homo neanderthalensis (
Neanderthal Man) were found there.
In
1679 Neander became a
pastor in
Bremen, as his popularity with the common people had caused problems with the church administration in Düsseldorf. One year later, at the age of 30, he died of
tuberculosis.
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