Michael Kongehl was a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 baroque poet.

Life

Kongehl was born in Kreuzburg

Slavskoye, Russia

Slavskoye is a settlement in the Bagrationovsky District, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located south of Kaliningrad.-History:In 1240, the Teutonic Knights founded a castle in the region of Natangia at the location of an Old Prussians settlement. In 1315 Kreuzburg received its town privileges...

 to the brewer Michael Kongehl and his wife Barbara Marquart. He visited the school in Kreuzburg and Königsberg

Königsberg

Königsberg was the capital of East Prussia from the Late Middle Ages until 1945 as well as the northernmost and easternmost German city with 286,666 inhabitants . Due to the multicultural society in and around the city, there are several local names for it...

 and started to study Lutheran divinity at the University of Königsberg

University of Königsberg

The University of Königsberg was the university of Königsberg in East Prussia. It was founded in 1544 as second Protestant academy by Duke Albert of Prussia, and was commonly known as the Albertina....

 in 1661. Afterwards Kongehl travelled to Jena

Jena

Jena is a university city in central Germany on the river Saale. It has a population of approx. 103,000 and is the second largest city in the federal state of Thuringia, after Erfurt.-History:Jena was first mentioned in an 1182 document...

 and Nürnberg, where he lived for 3 years. Here Kongehl was "crowned" as a poet and named "prutenio" and was a member of the association of poets Pegnesischer Blumenorden. He returned to Königsberg and applied for the succession of Simon Dach

Simon Dach

Simon Dach was a Prussian German lyrical poet and writer of hymns, born in Memel in the Duchy of Prussia.-Early life:...

 as a professor of poetry at the University of Königsberg, but without success. Kongehl worked as a municipal secretary of Kneiphof

Kneiphof

Kneiphof was one of three towns in the Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights that became the city of Königsberg . Kneiphof was originally Knypabe , meaning 'area flushed by water' in Old Prussian.As other members of the Prussian Confederation, Kneiphof rebelled against the Teutonic Knights in...

, became a councilman in 1696 and Mayor of Kneiphof. He died throughout a time of epidemic plague in Königsberg.

Works

Kongehl wrote several popular religious chants like

• So bist du nun zugegen, du Heiland aller Welt
• So bleibt denoch ein gut Gewissen das schönste kleinod der Welt
• Nur frisch hinein, es wird so tief nicht sein

but also secular poetry and dramas

• Trauer-Hirten-Spiel, 1674
• Der beglückwünschte Doppelsieg des Kaisers, 1675
• Die vom Himmel herabgestürmte Himmel-Stürmer, 1675
• Das vom ungerathenen Sausewind versuchte u. verfluchte Kriegs-Leben, 1675
• Das bedrückte u. wieder erquickte Brandenburg, 1675
• Das sterbende Leben, 1676
• Surbosia oder geschichtsmächtiges Helden-Gedicht, 1676
• Hirtengedicht Auff Das Anmuthseelige u. Freudenvolle Geburts-Fest Des Allergetreuesten Erz-Seelen-Hirten Jesu Christi, 1680
• Der unschuldig-beschuldigten Innocenzien Unschuld, e. nachdenkl. Genues. Gedicht in e. Mischspiel, 1680
• Die Vom Tod erweckte Phönizia, Eine Anmuthige Sicilian. Geschicht, In e. Misch-Spiel (Tragico-Comoedia), 1682
• Belustigung bei der Unlust aus allerhand Geist- u. andern Glückwunschs-Gedichten. J. - Der Verkehrte u. Wiederbekehrte Prinz Tugendhold, 1691
• Immergrünender Cypressen-Hayn, 1694
• Lust-Quartier, neben den Cypressen-Hayn, 1694
• Die unvergleichlich-schöne Princeßin Andromeda, In e. Misch-Spiel (Tragico-Comedia), 1695
• Sieg prangender Lorbeer-Hayn, 1700
• Eines vortrefflichen Poeten Geist- u. Weltliche Gedichte, 1715.