a German composer , cantor and music theorist. Besides theoretical writings he published several polyphonic church music, and in 1571 the collection of carols Vetera nova carmina sacra et selecta de natali Domini nostri Jesus Christ (Frankfurt an der Oder 1575), which also contained ten of his own compositions, and about 20 Odensätze in Hymni sacri et scholastici cum melodiis et numeris musicis, aniversaria vice in libellum denuo collecti & aucti studio et opera M. Friderici Birck (Leipzig 1594, reprint 1604).
