Lyricist: Martin Jahn (Janus)

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Martin Jahn (Janus) (1620 - 1682) was a German poet and musician, born in Merseburg, Germany.

On March 14, 1644 he was registered at the University of Königsberg where he studied theology for several terms before he achieving employment as a musician in Steinau an der Steinau (Upper Silesia). In the course of the counter-reformation he fled to Niederlausitz. He served at the two Protestant Churches in Sorau as director of music, probably with support of the baron Sigismund Seifried von Promnitz. After the death of his sponsor (June 30, 1654), he worked as Rector and Kantor at the city school in Sagen, North Silesia, from which, however, he was driven out because of religious differences. After a long search he accepted the post of Kantor in Ohlau, where the reformator Herzogin (Duchess) Luise resided.