Died: Ei­ben­schütz, Ger­ma­ny, 1571.

Herbert seems to have been a na­tive or re­si­dent at Ful­neck, Mo­ra­via. He was or­dained a priest of the Breth­ren’s Un­i­ty in 1562, be­came a mem­ber of the Se­lect Coun­cil in 1567, and was Con­sen­ior of the Un­i­ty. He was sent as a de­pu­ty to con­fer with John Calvin, and in 1562 to ar­range with Duke Christ­oph of Würt­tem­berg for the ed­u­ca­tion at Tü­bing­en of young men from the Bo­hem­i­an Breth­ren. He was al­so one of the de­pu­ties sent to Vi­en­na in 1564 to pre­sent the re­vised form of the Breth­ren’s Con­fess­ion of Faith to the Em­per­or Max­i­mil­i­an II, and in 1566 to pre­sent their new Ger­man hymn book. Her­bert was one of the prin­ci­pal com­pil­ers of the en­larged edi­tion of the 1566 hymn book pub­lished as Kirch­en­ge­seng, and con­trib­ut­ed some 90 hymns to it (in the 1639 edi­tion, 104 hymns are marked as his).

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Hymns

1. Des Herren Wort bleibt in Weigkeit
2. Die Nacht ist kom­men drin wir ruh­en sol­len
   • Lo! Evening's Shades to Sleep Invite
   • Night Comes Apace, The
   • Night Is Come, Wherein at Last We Rest, The
   • Now God Be with Us, for the Night Is Closing
3. Fürchtet Gott, O lieben Leut
4. Lasst uns mit Lust und Freud aus Glauben singen
5. O Christ­en­mensch, merk wie sichs hält
   • Faith Is a Living Power from Heaven
6. O höchster Trost, heiliger Geist