Konrad Hubert, also Konrad Huber, Konrad Huober, or Konrad Humbert (1507 – 13 April 1577), was a German

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theologian, hymn writer and reformer. He was for 18 years the assistant of

Martin Bucer Martin Bucer (; Early German: ; 11 November 1491– 28 February 1551) was a German Protestant reformer based in Strasbourg who influenced Lutheran, Anglican doctrines and practices as well as Reformed Theology. Bucer was originally a memb ...

at St. Thomas, Strasbourg.

Life

Hubert was born in

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. He attended a school in

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from 1519. From 1526, he studied in

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. He stayed with

Johannes Oecolampadius Johannes Oecolampadius (also ''Œcolampadius'', in German also Oekolampadius, Oekolampad; 1482 – 24 November 1531) was a German Protestant reformer in the Calvinist tradition from the Electoral Palatinate. He was the leader of the Protestant ...

who influenced him. He had the chance to meet numerous people with whom he corresponded later, including Johannes Oporinus,

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and Johann Gast. Martin Bucer

After the battle at

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, Oecolampadius recommended him to his friend

who accepted him as his assistant (diaconus) in Strasbourg at St. Thomas. When Bucer was on his frequent travels, Hubert stepped in for him. Hubert worked for Bucer dutifully for 18 years. It was part of his job to make Bucer's ideas and concepts readable, because Bucer's handwriting was difficult to read. When Bucer left his post in 1549 and fled to England, Johann Marbach introduced

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. Hubert did not agree, he was expelled from the "Kirchenkonvent" in 1562 and was dismissed from St. Thomas in 1563. After that he worked as a free-lance preacher. After Bucer's death in 1551, Hubert planned to publish Bucer's works which were extant in prints and manuscripts. He faced opposition and withdrew from church life more and more. In 1556 he seemed close to publishing the works with the help of Johannes Sturm at Oporinus in Basel. However, only the first volume was published, titled "Martini Buceri scripta Anglicana fere omnia" in 1577. Hubert edited the Strasbourg

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s of 1560 and 1572. He died in

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Hymns

He is remembered for his hymns. He wrote the hymn "Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ", published in 1540, used by

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as the base for his

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''Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ'', BWV 33, in 1724. Hubert's hymn "O Gott, du höchster Gnadenhort" is part of the hymnal of the

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( EG 194).

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Konrad Hubert
Carus-Verlag {{DEFAULTSORT:Hubert, Konrad 16th-century German Protestant theologians German male non-fiction writers 16th-century Calvinist and Reformed theologians German Protestant hymnwriters 1507 births 1577 deaths 16th-century hymnwriters 16th-century German male writers