Jakob Vogel

Vogel, Jakob (Kornwestheim, Württemberg, 1584-?), a barber surgeon wrote an epic (Ungrische Schlacht, 1626) in Knittelverse, recounting in terms of his own day the battle of Merseburg (933). It contains the song ‘Kein seelgr Tod ist in der Welt’, which has become famous, not least through misuse, in the adaptation ‘Kein schönrer Tod ist auf der Welt’. Vogel also wrote Wandersregeln imitated from Hans Sachs and a prose satire, Der diogenische Lasterbeller.