[1] He is probably best known for his hymn "Nun laßt uns Gott dem Herren", of which J. S. Bach used the fifth stanza for his cantata O heilges Geist- und Wasserbad, BWV 165; Bach also used his words in BWV 73, 79 and 186a.

He became a professor of Philosophy an der Erfurt University in 1554.

[2] Helmbold was crowned poeta laureatus by Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, in 1566 on the Reichstag at Augsburg.

[2] The Mühlhausen cantors Joachim a Burck and Johannes Eccard set many of Helmbold's more than hundred hymns to music.

Some of his works were used by Johann Sebastian Bach in his cantatas, such as A few of his hymns are still included in the German Protestant hymnal Evangelisches Gesangbuch (EG): In 1998, a street named Helmboldstraße, next to Bonatstraße, was named after him in Mühlhausen.