Johann Jakob Schütz

SCHÜTZ, Johann Jakob. b. Frankfurt-am-Main, 7 September 1640; d. Frankfurt, 22 May 1690. He was educated at the University of Tübingen, and became a lawyer. He was a friend of Philipp Jakob Spener*, whose prayer meetings (the ‘Collegia Pietatis’) formed the beginning of the Pietist movement; it is said that Schutz suggested the idea to Spener (see JJ, p.1018, p. 1071). Schütz became a Separatist, and ceased to attend Lutheran services. Five of his hymns were published in his Christliches Gedenckbüchlein zu Beförderung eines anfangenden neuen Lebens (‘A little Christ-like book of commemoration, for the conveying of a beginning of a new life’, Frankfurt-am-Main, 1675). The best known is ‘Sei...