sentences:  Although the judgment of his contemporaries, Bebel, Spener, and others, placed him in the front rank of the theologians of the time, Dannhauer has received scant justice at the hands of posterity.The influence exerted upon Spener by his teacher must not be underestimated because of the formal tone of the poem dedicated by the founder of the Pietists to his teacher's memory.Their relations were certainly not characterized by the warmth of personal friendship, but were rather in the nature of an intercourse based on common interests.