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Elmenhorst, Heinrich

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a Lutheran theologian, was born October 19, 1632, at Parchim, in Mecklenburg, studied at Leipsic and Wittenberg, and accepted a call in 1660 to Hamburg, where he died May 21, 1704. He is the author of Geistliche Lieder (Hamburg, 1681): — Geistreiche Lieder (ibid. 1700). See Molleri, Cimbria Literata (Copenh., 1744), 2:183 sq.; Schroder, Lexikon der Hamburgischen Schritsteller, volume 2; Wezel, Hymnopoetica, 4:103 sq.; Koch, Geschichte des deutschen Kirchenliedes, 5:365 sq.; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v. (B.P.)