Gottfried Vopelius

"Herr, wie du willt, so schicks mit mir" redirects here. For the Bach cantata, see Herr, wie du willt, so schicks mit mir, BWV 73.
Engravings from Vopelius' 1693 Leipziger Gesangbuch, which was largely based on his earlier Neu Leipziger Gesangbuch (1682).[1]

Gottfried Vopelius (28 January 1645 – 3 February 1715), was a German Lutheran academic and hymn-writer, mainly active in Leipzig. He was born in Herwigsdorf, now a district of Rosenbach, Oberlausitz, and died in Leipzig at the age of 70.[2]

  1. ^ VD17 39:148106H at gso.gbv.de
  2. ^ Robert Eitner. "Vopelius, Gottfried", pp. 298–299 in Vol. 40 of Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie. Historische Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften [de], 1896.