Johannes Hesse

HESSE, Johannes. b. Nürnberg, September 1490; d. Breslau (now Wroclaw, Poland), 6 January 1547. He was educated at the Universities of Leipzig and Wittenberg (MA 1511), and then in Italy (Bologna and Ferrara, DD Ferrara, 1519). In 1520 he was ordained as a priest, and was Provost of the Church of St Mary and St George at Oels; he became a Protestant in 1523, and was appointed pastor of the Church of St Mary Magdalene at Breslau (Wroclaw). He is thought to be the author of ‘O Welt, ich muss dich lassen’*, the contrafact of ‘Innsbruck, ich muß dich laßen’ to the music of Henricus Isaac*, but this is not...