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JOHANN VON RIST (1607-1667)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 366 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RIST (1607-1667)  , See also:German poet, was See also:born at Ottensen in See also:Holstein on the 8th of See also:March 1607; the son of-See also:RISTITCH the Lutheran pastor of that See also:place . He received his See also:early training in See also:Hamburg and See also:Bremen; after studying See also:theology at Rinteln and See also:Rostock, he became in 1633 private See also:tutor in a See also:family of See also:Heide, and two years later (1635) was appointed pastor of the See also:village of Wedel on the See also:Elbe, where he laboured until his See also:death on the 31st of See also:August 1667 . See also:Rist first made his name known to the See also:literary See also:world by a See also:drama, See also:Perseus (1634), which he wrote while at Heide, and in the next succeeding years he produced a number of dramatic See also:works of which the See also:allegory Das friedewunschende Teutschland (1647) and Das friedejauchzends Teutschland (1653) (new ed. of both by H . M . Schletterer, 1864) are the most interesting . Rist soon became the central figure in a school of See also:minor poets, and honours were showered upon him from every See also:side . The See also:emperor See also:Ferdinand III. crowned him See also:laureate in 1644, ennobled him in 1653, and invested him with the dignity of a See also:Count See also:Palatine, an See also:honour which enabled him to See also:crown, and to gain numerous poets for the Elbschwanen See also:order, a literary and poetical society which he founded in 1656 . He had already, in 1645, been admitted, under the name " See also:Daphnis aus Cimbrien," to the literary order of See also:Pegnitz, and in 1647 he became, as " Der Rustige," a member of the Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft . It is, however, as a writer of See also:church See also:hymns (see HYMNS) that Rist is best known to fame . Among these several are still retained in the evangelical hymn See also:book: e.g . 0 Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort and Ermunt're See also:dick, mein schwacher Geist . Collections of his poems appeared under the titles Musa Teutonica (1634) and Himmlische Lieder (1643) .

Selections of Rist's writings have been published by W . See also:

Muller in vol. viii. of his Bibliothek deutscher Dichter See also:des 77 . Jahrh . (1822-1838), and by K . Goedeke and E . Goeze (1885) . See T . See also:Hansen, Johann Rist and See also:seine Zeit (1872); K . T . Gaedertz, J . Rist als niederdeutscher Dramatiker (Jahrb. f. niederdeutsche Sprache, vol. vii., 1881); and M. von Waldberg's See also:article in the Allg. deutsche Biographic .

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