Born: Cir­ca 1525, Gar­de­le­gen, Al­tmark.

Magdeburg en­rolled at the Un­i­ver­si­ty of Wit­ten­berg in 1544, and in 1546 was ap­point­ed rec­tor of the school at Schön­ing­en (near Helm­städt), Bruns­wick. He be­came pas­tor of Dan­nen­berg in Lün­e­burg in 1547, but re­signed in 1549, and in the same year be­came pas­tor of Salz­we­del in the Alt­mark. Re­fus­ing to adopt the Ca­tho­lic cer­e­mo­nies pre­scribed by the Act of the In­ter­im, in 1552 he was ban­ished from the Elect­or­ate of Bran­den­burg. He was sub­se­quent­ly ap­point­ed di­a­co­nus of St. Pe­ter’s Church in Ham­burg, and there be­came ac­quaint­ed with church his­tor­i­an Mat­thi­as Flach. Dis­agree­ments with lo­cal cler­gy led to his re­mov­al in 1558, and he went to Mag­de­burg to help Flach com­pile the church his­to­ry known as the Mag­de­burg Cen­tu­ries. Short­ly there­af­ter, he was ap­point­ed pas­tor of Oss­man­stedt in Thu­rin­gia, but as a fol­lowe­r of Flach , was re­moved in 1562. He then stayed, for var­i­ous lengths of time, with Count von Mans­feld, Bar­on von Schö­burg and others. When Em­per­or Max­i­mil­ian II lift­ed the ban on Pro­test­ant preach­ers in Aus­tria, he be­came re­gi­ment­al chap­lain at Raab, Hun­ga­ry, in 1564. In 1571, he was liv­ing in Erfurt, and 1581-3 was a preach­er in Ef­fer­ding, Aus­tria.

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Hymns

  1. Wer Gott ver­traut, hat wohl ge­baut

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