Jürgen Henkys

Jürgen Henkys (6 November 1929 – 22 October 2015) was a German Protestant minister and theologian.

Henkys was born in , Ostpreußen, Germany. 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. Several of his hymns are contained in the current German Protestant hymnal . Provided by Wikipedia