Samuel Rodigast

RODIGAST, Samuel. b. Gröben, near Jena, 19 October 1649; d. Berlin, March/April 1708 (buried 3 April). The son of a pastor, he was educated at school at Weimar and at the University of Jena (MA, 1671). He became an adjunct in the Faculty of Philosophy (‘Adjunctus Philosophiae’) in 1676. He was appointed Konrektor (1680) and then Rektor (1698) of the Greyfriars Gymnasium (Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster) in Berlin, a post that he held until his death there. Rodigast is known for the hymn ‘Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan’, in the ‘Angst und Vertrauen’ section of EG (EG 372; Gotteslob 294). It is said to have been written in 1675 during the illness of his friend Severus Gastorius, cantor at Jena;...