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Jürgen Henkys (6 November 1929 – 22 October 2015) was a German Protestant minister and theologian.
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Henkys was born in Krasnotorowka, Ostpreußen, Weimar Republic. He 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.
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The Evangelische Gesangbuch includes many hymnal translations from several languages:
From the Dutch
From the English
From the Norwegian
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