Jürgen Henkys


Jürgen Henkys was a German Protestant minister and theologian.
Henkys was born in, 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

The Evangelische Gesangbuch includes many hymnal translations from several languages:

From the Dutch