Sigmund von Birken

Sigmund von Birken (25 April 1626 — 12 June 1681) was a German poet of the Baroque. He was born in Wildstein, near Eger, and died in Nuremberg, aged 55.

Portrait of Sigmund von Birken, engraving by Jacob von Sandrart

His pupil, Sibylle Ursula von Braunschweig-Lüneburg wrote part of a novel, Die Durchlauchtige Syrerin Aramena (Aramena, the noble Syrian lady), which when complete would be the most famous courtly novel in German Baroque literature; it was finished by her brother Anton Ulrich and edited by Sigmund von Birken.[1][2]

Some hymns
  • "Jesu, deine Passion" (Jesus, I Will Ponder Now), sung to the tune "Jesu Kreuz, Leiden und Pein"[3]
  • "Lasset uns mit Jesu ziehen" (Let Us Ever Walk With Jesus), sung to the tune "Lasset uns mit Jesu ziehen"[4]

Further reading
  • Hellmut Rosenfeld (1955), "Birken, Sigmund v.", Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB) (in German), 2, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 256–257
  • Ferdinand Spehr (1875), "Birken, Sigmund von", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) (in German), 2, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 660–661
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References
  1. Hilary Brown (2012). Luise Gottsched the Translator. Camden House. pp. 27–. ISBN 978-1-57113-510-0.
  2. Jo Catling (23 March 2000). A History of Women's Writing in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Cambridge University Press. pp. 42–. ISBN 978-0-521-65628-3.
  3. Jesus, I Will Ponder Now, text, also see the tune, Jesu Kreuz, Leiden und Pein, mp3 has six verses of organ only
  4. Let Us Ever Walk With Jesus, text, also see this mp3 with organ only for the tune For Let Us Ever Walk With Jesus
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