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Paul orPaulus Stockmann (3 January 1603 – 6 September 1636) was a German academic, preacher and hymn-writer. He fought at theBattle of Lützen in 1632 and later served as court preacher toGustavus Adolphus of Sweden, before dying of the plague in 1636.
Some of his hymns are included in the Danish hymnbookPsalmebog for Kirke og Hjem. Single stanzas of his hymn 1633 hymn "Jesu Leiden, Pein und Tod", a narration of thePassion in 34 stanzas, were set for four parts byJohann Sebastian Bach, as the closingchorale ofcantataSehet, wir gehn hinauf gen Jerusalem, BWV 159, a chorale of cantataHimmelskönig, sei willkommen, BWV 182, and three stanzas reflecting dramatic situations in theSt John Passion.
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