Jürgen Henkys, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jürgen Henkys

German minister

Date of Birth: 06-Nov-1929

Place of Birth: East Prussia

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001

Profession: theologian, minister, university teacher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Jürgen Henkys (6 November 1929 – 22 October 2015) was a German Protestant minister and theologian.Henkys was born in Krasnotorowka, Ostpreußen, Weimar Republic.
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.
His hymns are quite common in the current German Protestant hymnal Evangelisches Gesangbuch.