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NEANDER, JOACHIM (1650–1680)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 321 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NEANDER, See also:JOACHIM (1650–1680) , See also:German hymnwriter, was See also:born at See also:Bremen. The See also:family name, originally See also:Neumann, had, according to the prevailing See also:fashion a See also:century earlier, been Graecized as Neander. After studying at See also:Heidelberg and See also:Frankfort, where he formed friendships with See also:Friedrich Spanheim (1632–1701) and Philipp See also:Jakob Spener (1635–1705), he settled at See also:Dusseldorf as See also:rector of the Latin school in connexion with the Reformed See also:Church. In 1676 he incurred church censure for abstaining and inducing others to abstain from joining in the celebration of the communion. It was during the See also:term of Kirche, and in 1837 his Das Leben Jesu Christi, in seinem geschichtlichen Zusammenhang and seiner geschichtlichen Entwickelung, called forth by the famous See also:Life of See also:David See also:Strauss. In addition to all these he published Denkwurdigkeiten aus der Geschichte See also:des Christentums (1823-1824, 2 vols., 1825, 3 vols., 1846); Das Eine and Mannichfaltige des christlichen Lebens (184o) ; papers on See also:Plotinus, See also:Thomas See also:Aquinas, See also:Theobald Thamer, Blaise See also:Pascal, J. H. See also:Newman, Blanco See also:White and T. See also:Arnold, and other occasional pieces (Kleine Gelegenheitsschriften,1829), mainly of a See also:practical, exegetical and See also:historical See also:character. He died on the 14th of See also:July '85o, worn out and nearly See also:blind with incessant study. After his See also:death a See also:succession of volumes, representing his various courses of lectures, appeared (1856-1864), in addition to See also:lie Lectures on the See also:History of See also:Dogma (Theologische Vorlesungen), admirable in spirit and See also:execution, which were edited by J. L.

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Jacobi in 1857. his suspension from his teaching See also:office that many of his See also:hymns were written. He ultimately renounced his connexion with the separatists, and in 1679 returned to Bremen as one of the preachers of St See also:Martin's church. In the same See also:year he published the Bundeslieder and Dank psalmen, a collection of 71 hymns, of which many are still in use. He died on the 31St of May '680. The See also:Neanderthal, near Dusseldorf, takes its name from him. For his See also:place in hymnology see HYMNS. See J. F. Iken, Joachim Neander, sein Leben and See also:seine Lieder (188o).

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