Introduction

Zinckeisen was a pas­tor, rector, teach­er and writ­er in Langen, Hesse.

He stu­died in Wit­ten­berg in 1549. Later, he served as rec­tor of the La­tin school in Using­en, where he not­ably cor­res­pond­ed with Phi­lipp Me­lanch­thon.

In 1584, he sub­mit­ted to pub­lish­er Sig­mund Fey­er­abend of Frank­furt am Main a fo­lio col­lect­ion of 354 spi­ri­tu­al songs with 204 tunes ti­tled Kirch­en Ge­säng, so bei der Pre­digt des gött­lich­en Wort­es und bei der Aus­spen­dung der h. Sac­ra­ment in den Kirch­en Augs­burg­isch­er Con­fes­sion ge­braucht wer­den u. s. f.

Zinckeisen’s sub­mis­sion was de­di­cat­ed to the Rath­man­nen of Bres­lau (now Wro­cław, Po­land). The de­di­ca­tion stat­ed it was an en­larged and im­proved edi­tion of the one pub­lished in 1569 in folio (and again in 1570 in duo­dez) by Jo­han­nes Wolf in Frankfurt am Main as a print­ed hym­nal.

Works

• Kirch­en Ge­säng (Frank­furt am Main, Ger­ma­ny: Sig­mund Fey­er­abend, 1584)