Johann Hoefel

Höfel, Johann, was born June 24, 1600, at Uffenheim, in Franconia, and studied at the Universities of Giessen, Jena, and Strassburg, becoming in 1628 Doctor of Law at Jena. In 1633 he settled in Schweinfurt as a consulting lawyer, and died there Dec. 8, 1683 (Wetzel, i. 435-436, and A. H. ii., 285-291). One of his hymns has been translated into English:—
0 süsses Wort das Jesus spricht . Cross and Consolation . Founded on St. Luke vii. 13. Included as No. 461 in the Coburg Gesang-Buch, 1655 [Göttingen University Library], in 11 stanzas of 4 lines, entitled, "The sweet saying of Jesus, ’Weep not,' Luke vii." According to Koch , iii. 141, it had previously appeared in his Musica Christiana, 1634. Translated as "Oh, sweetest words that Jesus could have sought," by Mrs. Findlater, in Hymns from the Land of Luther 1855, p. 8 (1884, p. 75). (Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]

-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology