Born: Sep­tem­ber 14, 1648, Bres­lau, Schle­sien (Si­le­sia) (now Wro­cław, Po­land).

Died: Jan­u­a­ry 27, 1715, Bres­lau, Si­le­sia.

Son of tax col­lect­or Mar­tin Neu­mann, Cas­par en­tered the Un­i­ver­si­ty of Je­na in Sep­tem­ber 1667, gra­du­a­ted MA in Au­gust 1670, and was for some time a un­i­ver­si­ty lec­tur­er there. On No­vem­ber 30, 1673, he was or­dained, at the re­quest of Duke Ernst of Go­tha, as tra­vel­ing chap­lain to his son, Prince Christ­ian, whom he ac­com­pa­nied through west­ern Ger­ma­ny, Switz­er­land, north­ern It­a­ly, and south­ern France, re­turn­ing to Gotha in 1675. In 1676, he be­came court preach­er at Al­ten­burg, but in De­cem­ber 1676 was ap­pointed di­a­co­nus of the St. Ma­ry Mag­da­lene Church in Bres­lau, and pas­tor there in 1689. In Feb­ru­a­ry 1697, he be­came pas­tor of St. Eliz­a­beth’s Church in Bres­lau, in­spect­or of the church­es and schools in the dis­trict, and first pr­ofess­or of the­ol­o­gy in the two Gym­na­sia in Bres­lau. Neu­mann wrote over 30 hymns, al­most all of which ap­peared in Burg’s Ge­sang Buch (Bres­lau: 1746); most al­so ap­peared, with his ini­tials, in the ninth edi­tion of the Bres­lau Voll­ständ­ige Kirch­en-und Haus-Mu­sic (un­dat­ed, cir­ca 1700). Neu­mann’s works in­clude:

• Kern all­er Ge­be­te (Bres­lau: 1680 & 1697)

Sources

Hymns

1. Adam hat him Par­a­dies
2. Gottes und Marien Sohn
   • Welcome God’s and Ma­ry’s Son
3. Grosser Gott, von alt­en Zeit­en
   • God of Ages, Great and Mighty
   • God of Ages Never Ending, Rul­ing
   • God of Ages, Never Ending! All Cre­a­tion
   • Great God of Ages! By Whose Pow­er
4. Herr! auf Erden muss ich leide­n
   • Lord, on Earth I Dwell Sad-Heart­ed
5. Mein Gott, nun ist es wied­er Mor­gen
6. Nun bricht die finstre Nacht her­ein