Born: Cir­ca 1488, Neisse, Si­le­sia.

Died: 1534, Lands­kron, Mo­ra­via.

Weisse was a Fran­cis­can monk in Bres­lau, Si­le­sia (now Wro­cław, Po­land), where he wrote ma­ny of his hymns. He en­tered Cra­cow Un­i­ver­si­ty in 1504, and joined the Mo­ra­vi­an bro­thers in 1518 at Leit­o­misch, Bo­he­mia. In 1522, he be­came an el­der of their com­mun­i­ty in Lands­kron, Mo­ra­via. In 1531, he ed­it­ed the first Mo­ra­vi­an hymn­book, Ein New Ge­seng­buch­len, with 157 hymns, in­clud­ing some of his own.

Sources

Lyrics

1. Christus ist er­stand­en
   • Christ the Lord Is Ris­en Again
2. Nun lasst uns den Leib be­grab­en
   • This Body in the Grave We Lay

Music

1. Gottes Sohn ist Kom­men