The cherubinic Wanderer (Cherubinischer Wandersmann) is a collection of poems of a Silesian poet and mystic Johannes Scheffler. Their final version was published in Kłodzko in 1675. The dominating motif in the poems is love to God. The most magnificent poems of the poet also include: Święta uciecha duszy albo duchowne pieśni pasterskie (Holy joy of the soul or spiritual pastoral songs) and Epigramatyczne rymy duchowne (Epigrammatic spiritual rhymes).

Johannes Scheffler was born in Wrocław in 1624. He was a doctor and a distinguished Silesian religious poet in the Baroque period. He wrote in German even though he introduced himself as a son of a Polish nobleman. He created religious songs, apologetic pieces and aphorisms. He studied medicine and law in Strasburg and Leiden , and he gained a doctorate in the field of medicine and philosophy in Padua. He was a court physician of the Duke Silvius Nimrod von Württemberg, lord of Oleśnica. He was raised in the Protestant spirit, but he converted to Catholicism and then he started signing as Angelus Silesius. He became a Catholic mystic and a strong advocate of the Counter-Reformation.

In 1661 he was ordained. As a priest and a doctor of the poor he served in the monastery of St. Matthias in Wrocław. He died in 1677.