Jürgen Henkys

Jürgen Henkys (6 November 1929 – 22 October 2015) was a German Protestant minister and theologian.[1]

Henkys was born in Krasnotorowka, Ostpreußen, Weimar Republic. He became a lecturer at the Sprachenkonvikt in East Berlin and the Professor for Practical Theology at the Humboldt-Universität Berlin in 1991. He is especially known for his translations of foreign-language hymns into German. His hymns are quite common in the current German Protestant hymnal Evangelisches Gesangbuch.

Selected works

Translations

The Evangelische Gesangbuch includes many hymnal translations from several languages:

From the Dutch

From the English

From the Norwegian

References

  1. ↑ "Früherer Berliner Theologieprofessor Jürgen Henkys gestorben" (in German). Evangelischer Pressedienst. 27 October 2015. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
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