Talk:Philipp Spener

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I am baffled why the article on Spener would have a link to heraldry. I did a search on the heraldry page for "spener" and there were no matches. Lynn 07:11, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

This article does state that heraldry was something he studied throughout his life, and the Ludwig Biewer article in the Bibliography, perhaps added in response to your comment, seems relevant. It's probably a subject that should be expanded on in the article. Bob Burkhardt (talk) 16:38, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Intimate friend of a major hymnwriter. Possible expansion of article.

Johann Jakob Schütz was a significant hymnwriter, perhaps best known for "Sing Praise to God Who Reigns Above". That hymn was used by Bach in Sei Lob und Ehr dem höchsten Gut, BWV 117. According to the article on Schütz at http://www.hymnary.org/person/Schutz_JJ , Spener and Schütz were intimate friends. That article cites: John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907). Perhaps this connection could be added to Wikipedia's article on Spener. Oaklandguy (talk) 20:53, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

Sources for future article expansion

These were listed as "sources" separate from the "reference" section, which really made them "further reading". In any case, they should be added to the article once they are being used to verify the running text.

• Ludwig Biewer: “Philipp Jakob Spener als Heraldiker - Ein kleiner Beitrag zu dem 300. Todestag eines großen Theologen” in: Der Herold (Virteljahresschrift des “Herold” - Verein für Heraldik, Genealogie und verwandte Wissenschaften zu Berlin), Bd. 16, Heft 17/2005, S. 493ff.
• Johannes Wallmann, Philipp Jakob Spener und die Anfänge des Pietismus, 1970.
• Reinhard Breymayer: “Der ‘Vater des deutschen Pietismus’ und seine Bücher. Zur Privatbibliothek Philipp Jakob Speners,” in: Bibliothecae selectae da Cusano a Leopardi, a cura di Eugenio Canone. Leo S. Olschki, Editore, Firenze, 1993 (Lessico Intellettuale Europeo, 58), S. 299-331.

 — LlywelynII 16:30, 22 June 2016 (UTC)