Jürgen Henkys

Jürgen Henkys (born in 1929 in Heiligenkreutz, Ostpreußen, Germany) is a German Protestant minister.

Henkys became a lecturer at the Sprachenkonvikt in East Berlin and the Professor for Practical Theology at the Humboldt-Universität Berlin in 1991. He is especially known for his translations of foreign-language hymns into German. His hymns are quite common in the current German Protestant hymnal Evangelisches Gesangbuch.

Selected works

Translations

The Evangelische Gesangbuch includes many hymnal translations from several languages:

From the Dutch

From the English

From the Norwegian