JoachimNeander (1650 - May 31, 1680) was a Calvinist teacher who became famous for creating the words to the church choral Praise to the Lord, the Almighty (German: Lobet den Herren, den mächtigen König der Ehren) in 1679.
The valley was renamed after him in his honor in the early 19th century, and got famous in 1856 when the remains of the Neanderthal humans were found there.
In 1679Neander became a priest in Bremen, as his popularity at the common people gave him problems with the church administration in Düsseldorf.
He is considered by many to be the first important German hymnist after the Reformation and is regarded as the outstanding hymn writer of the German Reformed Church.
JoachimNeander was born in Bremen, the son of a Latin teacher.
In 1679Neander became a pastor in Bremen, as his popularity with the common people gave him problems with the church administration in Düsseldorf.
JOACHIMNEANDER (1650-1680), German hymnwriter, was born at Bremen.
The family name, originally Neumann, had, according to the prevailing fashion a century earlier, been Graecized as Neander.
After studying at Heidelberg and Frankfort, where he formed friendships with Friedrich Spanheim (1632-1701) and Philipp Jakob Spener (1635-1705), he settled at Dusseldorf as rector of the Latin school in connexion with the Reformed Church.
Neither the cave nor the cliff in which it was located exist anymore.
The valley was named after JoachimNeander, the nom-de-plume of a 17th-century minister Joachim Neumann — Neander is the Greek translation of his name which means "new man".
He lived nearby and loved the valley to give him the inspiration for his compositions.
Grandson of a musician and son of a teacher, Neander studied theology at Bremen University, 1666-1670.
In 1671, Neander moved his studies to Heidelberg (locale of The Student Prince musical).
The “Neanderthal Man” was found there in the summer of 1856, giving Joachim the distinction of being the only hymnist with a fossil hominid named after him!
The hymn tune "Neander," also known as "Unser Herrscher," was composed by JoachimNeander in the 17th century.
Dr. Hilfiger has used "Neander" as the starting point for the Partita, which is a set of elaborate variations on the familiar tune.
The hymn melody makes this work a natural choice for use in worship, perhaps as prelude or during the offering, but the composition is interesting enough to be suitable for recitals as well.
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Comments: Neandertal Man was named after JoachimNeander.
Joachim was a Minister of the early Protestant Church in the Netherlands and in Germany.
After his death, the cave was named after him, Neander-grot, and the entire valley came to be known as Neander valley, or Neanderthal in German.
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Vom Spötter zum Lobsänger Gottes, JoachimNeander und seine Kirchenlieder, Vortrag von Otto Stündt
Erstes Heft: Lieder von JoachimNeander und Georg Christoph Strattner nach Dichtungen von JoachimNeander für eine Singstimme und Generalbaß 1680 und 1691.
Neander galt aber auch als einer der Wegbereiter des Kleinwagenbooms nach dem 2.
Eight years later the “original” Neanderthal man was discovered in a limestone quarry in the Neander Valley near Düsseldorf in Germany (“Neanderthal” literally means “Neander’s Valley”).
The Neander Valley in turn was named after JoachimNeander, a 17th century German theologian who taught Latin in nearby Düsseldorf and preached sermons in the valley which later came to bear his name.
Three years after the Neander Valley discovery, Charles Darwin published his Origin of Species in which he proposed that all life descended from a common ancestor.
To these Lutheran hymnwriters, we may add a Calvinist, JoachimNeander, born in Bremen in 1650.
After a rowdy life as an undergraduate, he underwent conversion and amendment.
When JoachimNeander went to live in a cave by a river, the river came to be named for him as the Neander River, and the valley of that river was called the Neander Valley, or Neander Dale.
