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Born: June 6, 1647 - Dresden, Saxony, Germany
Died: March 21, 1699 - Dresden, Saxony, Germany |
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Johann Friedrich Hertzog [Herzog], LL.D., was the son of Johann Hertzog, diaconus of the Church of the Holy Cross, in Dresden and Barbara Sabine Hertzog; brother of Anna Sabina Hertzog; Johann Christian Hertzog; Johann Christoph Hertzog; Euphrosyna Maria Pfeiffer; Johann Siegismund Hertzog and 3 others. After the completion of his legal studies at the University of Wittenberg, he was, from 1671 to 1674, tutor to the sons of General-Lieutenant von Arnim. In 1674 he returned to Dresden to practice as an advocate, where he died March 21, 1699 (Koch, iii. 361-63; Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, xii. 251). He was married to Maria Salome Hertzog
The only hymn by Johann Friedrich Hertzog which has been translated into English is: Nun sich der Tag geendet hat, Und keine Sonn mehr scheint. [Evening.] Fischer, ii. 129, says that, according to the testimony of Hertzog's brother, this hymn was written one evening in 1670 while the author was still a student at Wittenberg. Stanza i. and the melody appear as No. 8 in the 1 Zehen of Adam Krieger's News Arien. In 6 Zehen, Dresden, 1667 [Leipzig Town Library]. Hertzog seems to have adopted this stanza and added eight others, the form in 9 st. being found in Luppius's Andächtig Singender Christen-Mund, Wesel, 1692, p. 123, in 9 stanzas. Included as No. 622 in Freylinghausen's Geistreiches Gesang-Buch, 1704, with a 10th st., which, according to Fischer, first appeared in the Leipzig Gesang-Buch, 1693. Also in the Unverfälschter Liedersegen, 1851, No. 530. It speedily became popular, was often imitated, and still holds its place as one of the best German evening hymns. |
