Heinrich von Laufenburg

LAUFENBURG, Heinrich von. b. Laufenburg, Aargau, Switzerland, ca. 1390; d. Strasbourg, ca. 1460. He is named after his birthplace, a town on the Rhine, now on the border with Germany: in JJ he is listed as ‘Heinrich of Laufenburg’ (p. 507; Catherine Winkworth* uses ‘Henry of Loufenburg’, and Wackernagel ‘Heinrich von Loufenberg’). In JJ James Mearns* noted that he was first heard of as Dean of the Collegiate Church of St Maurice at Zofingen, Aargau. He later became a Dean at Freiburg, Baden, before becoming a monk in the Order of the Knights of St John at Strasbourg. He is thought to have died ca. 1460.  According to Mearns, he was ‘the most important and most prolific hymn-writer of the...