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Andreas Griffius is one of the most prominent poets of the German Baroque, who lived and worked during the most tragic period for Germany - the Thirty Years' War. Griffius was born in Glogau, Silesia, into a pastoral family. He was educated at the Danzig Gymnasium in Gdańsk, where he wrote his first poetry in Latin.

Griffius's works are marked by inner turmoil and tension, as well as religious and mystical motifs, which are characteristic of all German Baroque poetry.

In today's Germany, Griffius's work is studied at school and universities. From time to time, his non-mainstream works are republished, which, surprisingly, sound extremely contemporary.

The translator Oleh Zhupansky worked on the book for about forty years. And in 1990, the journal Vsesvit published for the first time in Ukraine a large selection of poetry by A. Grifius was published in Ukraine for the first time. The book of Grifius's works included almost one hundred sonnets, as well as his odes, poems, and epigrams. This is the first book edition of the poet in Ukraine.