The next year he continued his studies at Leipzig University and in 1620 at the Jean Sturm Gymnasium in Strasbourg, where he found lodgings with the linguist Matthias Bernegger.
[4] Roberthin returned in 1633 and the next year he found a job as a secretary at the Order of Saint John in Sonnenburg (Słońsk).
The ten to twelve members met regularly in the garden of Heinrich Albert, the Königsberg Cathedral organist.
Other well-known members apart from Roberthin and Albert were the poets Simon Dach and Valentin Thilo the Younger and the Kapellmeister Johann Stobäus.
In 1645 Roberthin was appointed Geheimrat of prince-elector Frederick William of Brandenburg-Prussia and first secretary of the Prussian government.
[1] At Roberthin's request Simon Dach wrote already many years before his death the song that had to be performed at his burial.
The result was Ich bin ja Herr in deiner Macht, which is still being sung in the German Lutheran church.
The biggest part of what is left can be found in the eight volumes of Arien und Melodeien, the bundles of songs by Heinrich Albert, who put many of Roberthin's poems to music.