1672–1708

Introduction

Born: Feb­ru­ary 1672, Stras­bourg, France.

Baptized: March 1, 1672, Stras­bourg Ca­thed­ral.

Died: May 26, 1708, Hal­le, Ger­ma­ny.

Biography

Johann was the son of Da­ni­el Ruopp and Ka­tha­ri­na Rein­thal­er.

He stu­died theo­lo­gy at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Je­na, where he turned to Pi­e­tism.

After gra­du­a­tion, he be­came a vi­car in Lam­pert­heim, and lat­er a pas­tor in Gox­wil­ler. There he sec­ret­ly pub­lished Je­sus­lied­er. In 1705, he was ac­cused of sec­tar­i­an­ism be­cause of his pi­e­tis­tic at­ti­tude and was ex­pelled from Gox­wil­ler.

Finally, he worked at Au­gust Francke’s or­phan­age in Hal­le as an in­spect­or for poor stu­dents and ad­junct of the theo­lo­gic­al fa­cul­ty.

Sources

Lyrics

Help Needed

If you know where to get a good pic­ture of Ruopp (head & shoul­ders, at least 200×300 pix­els),