About Michael Kongehl
Lived 1646 – 1710 (aged 64). Michael Kongehl was a German poet, writer, hymnwriter and mayor.
Michael Kongehl (19 March 1646 – 1 November 1710) was a German baroque poet.
Life Kongehl was born in Kreuzburg (now Slavskoye, Bagrationovsky District) to the brewer Michael Kongehl and his wife Barbara Marquart. He visited the school in Kreuzburg and Königsberg and started to study Lutheran divinity at the University of Königsberg in 1661. Afterwards Kongehl travelled to Jena and Nürnberg, where he lived for 3 years. Here Kongehl was "crowned" as a poet and named "prutenio" and was a member of the association of poets Pegnesischer Blumenorden. He returned to Königsberg and applied for the succession of Simon Dach as a professor of poetry at the University of Königsberg, but without success. Kongehl worked as a municipal secretary of Kneiphof, became a councilman in 1696 and Mayor of Kneiphof. He died throughout a time of epidemic plague in Königsberg.
Works Kongehl wrote several popular religious chants like So bist du nun zugegen, du Heiland aller Welt So bleibt denoch ein gut Gewissen das schönste kleinod der Welt Nur frisch hinein, es wird so tief nicht sein
but also secular poetry and dramas Trauer-Hirten-Spiel, 1674 Der beglückwünschte Doppelsieg des Kaisers, 1675 Die vom Himmel herabgestürmte Himmel-Stürmer, 1675 Das vom ungerathenen Sausewind versuchte u. verfluchte Kriegs-Leben, 1675 Das bedrückte u. wieder erquickte Brandenburg, 1675 Das sterbende Leben, 1676 Surbosia oder geschichtsmächtiges Helden-Gedicht, 1676 Hirtengedicht Auff Das Anmuthseelige u. Freudenvolle Geburts-Fest Des Allergetreuesten Erz-Seelen-Hirten Jesu Christi, 1680 Der unschuldig-beschuldigten Innocenzien Unschuld, e. nachdenkl. Genues. Gedicht in e. Mischspiel, 1680 Die Vom Tod erweckte Phönizia, Eine Anmuthige Sicilian. Geschicht, In e. Misch-Spiel (Tragico-Comoedia), 1682 Belustigung bei der Unlust aus allerhand Geist- u. andern Glückwunschs-Gedichten. J. - Der Verkehrte u. Wiederbekehrte Prinz Tugendhold, 1691 Immergrünender Cypressen-Hayn, 1694 Lust-Quartier, neben den Cypressen-Hayn, 1694 Die unvergleichlich-schöne Princeßin Andromeda, In e. Misch-Spiel (Tragico-Comedia), 1695 Sieg prangender Lorbeer-Hayn, 1700 Eines vortrefflichen Poeten Geist- u. Weltliche Gedichte, 1715.
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Who was Michael Kongehl?
German poet and hymnwriter (1646-1710)
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Michael Kongehl was born on 19 March 1646 in Slavskoye.
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Michael Kongehl died on 1 November 1710 in Königsberg.
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Michael Kongehl was a poet, writer, hymnwriter and mayor.
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Michael Kongehl was German.
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