Born: 1563 - Bunzlau
Died: 1621 - Sprottau

Christoph Knoll was a German minister (pastor) and poet of church hymns. After attending schools in Bunzlau and Görlitz, he was since 1583 in Frankfurt/Oder and in 1584 in Wittenberg. The same year he became Signator at the school in Sprottau. There he worked as a deacon from 1591 to 1620. He died in 1621 and left a son, who was later a minister in Witgendorf.

Works

Trostbüchlein oder Praxi articulorum de resurrectione carnis et vita aeterna, o.O., o.J.; Calendarium generale perpetuum (Liegnitz 1619)

Source: BBKL Website (Author: Susanne Siebert, 1992), English translation by Aryeh Oron (May 2006)
Contributed by Aryeh Oron (August 2003, May 2006)

Texts of Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works

BWV 161

Chorale Texts used in Bach’s Vocal Works

Title

Year

EKG

Zahn

Herzlich tut mich verlangen

1611

435

Links to other Sites

Bibliography

ABB XVI, 320
Jöcher III Erg.bd., 570
A.Fr.W. Fischer: Kirchenlieder-Lexikon, 1. Hälfte, 291 f.
Wackernagel I, 814 u. V, 350-52; - Koch³ II, 271 f. u. VIII, 611-614
Nelle⁴, 85
John Julian, A Dictionnary of Hymnology I, 628-29, New York 1957