Paul Gerhardt
Seventeenth-century Lutheran pastor and hymnwriter, author of some of the tradition's most enduring texts, including “O Sacred Head, Now Wounded.”
In History — The Reformation, and the people who carried it.
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Seventeenth-century Lutheran pastor and hymnwriter, author of some of the tradition's most enduring texts, including “O Sacred Head, Now Wounded.”
In History — The Reformation, and the people who carried it.