马丁·林卡特（Martin Rinkart，1586-1649）. Explore “Nun danket alle Gott”: song information and official sources.
The glory of God · Faithfulness and covenant keeping
The hymn comes from Eilenburg, a small Saxon town during the Thirty Years’ War. Refugees crowded its walls, followed by plague and famine. At the epidemic’s height in 1637, Rinkart was for a time the only remaining pastor. Early records describe him reading burial services for forty to fifty dead. ⚠️ Keep the chronology clear: the hymn was already published in 1636, not written afterwards. Born in wartime suffering, it acquired special weight in the later plague. Knowing this gives the opening call to shared thanksgiving its force. Paul says, “In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.” (1 Thessalonians 5:18). In such times, everything was no mere figure of speech. ⚠️ The first two stanzas draw on the deuterocanonical Wisdom of Ben Sira, chapter 50, commonly numbered 50:22–24 in modern editions, outside the Protestant canon. The third is a Trinitarian doxology and does not come from that passage. Identify the source without treating it as canonical Scripture.
Thanksgiving, year-end services, church anniversaries and the first gathering after disaster or an epidemic.