Henning Dedekind
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Henning Dedekind (30 December 1562 – 28 July 1626) was a German Lutheran clergyman, and a composer.
He was born in Neustadt am Rübenberge, and studied in Erfurt, matriculating in 1582. In 1586 he moved to Langensalza, where he was initially a cantor, and later a preacher. From 1615 he was a priest in Gebesee; he died there in 1626.[1][2]
He married in 1590 Christine, daughter of Melchior Stiefel, a businessman; they had several children. He married about 1617 Dorothea, widow of Heinrich Heilschwing, a jeweller. Among the children of Henning and Christine Dedekind was Stephan Dedekind (1595–1636), a priest in Reinsdorf, Thuringia and father of the composer and poet Constantin Christian Dedekind.[1][3]