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Ingolstätter, Andreas, was born at Nürnberg, April 9, 1633, where he became superintendent of the market, and where he died June 7, 1711. In 1672 he was admitted a member of the Pegnitz Shepherd and Flower Order, and was in 1674 crowned as a poet. Of his seven or eight hymns (of which six were contributed to the Pegnitz Andachtsklang, 1673-91) one has passed into English:
Hinab geht Christi Weg. [Humility.] First published in the Poetischer Andachtsklang, Nürnberg, 1673, No. 39, in 7 stanzas of 8 lines; and is founded on meditation, No. 261, of Dr. H. Müller's Geistliche Erquickstunden. Included in Knapp's Evangelischer Lieder-Schatz, 1837, No. 2198, in 6 stanzas. Translated as:—
Christ's path was sad and lowly. A good translation from Knapp by Mrs. Findlater in the 3rd Ser., 1858, of the Hymns from the Land of Luther, p. 8 (1884, p. 135), repeated in the Irvingite Hymns for use of the Churches, 1871. In Bp. Ryle's Collection, 1860, it begins "Lowly, my soul, be lowly."
Another translation is "Still downward goes Christ's way," by J. D. Burns, in the Family Treasury, 1859, p. 192 [Remains, 1869, p. 248). [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)