Johannes Zwick ( – 23 October 1542) was a German Reformer and

hymnwriter A hymnwriter (or hymn writer, hymnist, hymnodist, hymnographer, etc.) is someone who writes the text, music, or both of hymns. In the Judeo-Christian tradition, the composition of hymns dates back to before the time of David, who is traditional ...

. He was born in

Konstanz Konstanz ( , , , ), traditionally known as Constance in English, is a college town, university city with approximately 83,000 inhabitants located at the western end of Lake Constance in the Baden-Württemberg state of south Germany. The city ho ...

. He briefly hosted the

Anabaptist Anabaptism (from Neo-Latin , from the Greek language, Greek : 're-' and 'baptism'; , earlier also )Since the middle of the 20th century, the German-speaking world no longer uses the term (translation: "Re-baptizers"), considering it biased. ...

Johannes Bünderlin in 1529. He died of the plague in Bischofszell.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Zwick, Johannes 1542 deaths German Protestant hymnwriters Year of birth uncertain 16th-century deaths from plague (disease) 16th-century German writers 16th-century German male writers People from Konstanz 1490s births 16th-century German jurists