Period of Lutheran Orthodoxy 1546-1617
Johann Lindemann (1549-1631)
Philipp
Nicolai (1556-1608)
Thirty Years War Period 1618-1648
Johann Heermann (1585-1647)
Martin Rinkart (1586-1649)
Paul Gerhardt (1607-1676)
Georg
Neumark (1621-1681)
Matthaus von Lowenstern (1594-1648)
Johann Franck (1618-1677)
Johannes Olearius (1611-1684)
Pietism: period from the end of the Thirty
Years War(1648) to about 1750
Joachim Neander (1650-1680)
Johann A. Freylinghausen (1610-1739)
Gerhard Tersteegen (1697-1769)
Non-pietistic Lutheran hymn writers from about
1700-1800
Erdmann Neumeister (1671-1756)
Benjamin Schmolck (1672-1737)
Matthias Claudius (1740-1815)
Period of Romanticism from about 1800-1900
Karl
Johann Philipp Spitta (1801-1859)
Jonathan
Friedrich Bahnmaier (1774-1841)
Modern Luthern hymn writers from about 1900-present
Dieter Trautwein (b. 1928)
Rolf Schweizer (b. 1936)
Heinz Werner Zimmerman (b. 1930)
Deitrich Bonhoeffer
(1906-1945)
Martin Franzmann (1907-1976)
Gracia
Grindall