Elisabeth Cruciger (1500?-1535): The Case of the Disappearing Hymn Writer.

'Elisabeth von Meseritz, the first female Lutheran hymn writer, became a nun, fled from the convent to Wittenberg in the early 1520s and married Caspar Cruciger (1504-1548), a Wittenberg theologian and friend of both Luther and Melanchthon, in 1524. Her hymn "Herr Christ, der einig Gotts Sohn" was published in 1524. It was translated into English as early as 1535 and included in Coverdale's Goostly psalmes'.