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Bornschürer, Johannes, born Nov. 5, 1625, at Schmalkalden. After studying at the Universities of Marburg, Jena, Erfurt, and Strassburg he became, in 1650, pastor at Brotterode in Hesse Cassol, 1657 at Steinbach-Hallenberg, 1661 diaconus at Schmalkalden, and in 1670 decan in the town of Tann, where he died Dec. 5, 1677 (Koch, iii. 430; Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, iii. 176). To the hymn-book which he edited for use in Tann, published as Geistliche Lieder zu Ubung christlicher Gottseeligkeit, at Meiningen, 1676, he contributed five hymns, one of which is:—
Gott Vater, höre unser Bitt. [Holy Baptism]. This prayer to the Holy Trinity for a blessing on the child, appeared as No. 6 of the Baptismal Hymns in 1676, as above, p. 435, in 4 stanzas of 6 lines. v In the Unverfälschter Liedersegen, 1851, No. 260. The only translation in common use is "O God the Father! hear our prayer," a good and full translation by A. T. Russell, Nos. 154,155, in his Psalms & Hymns, 1851, No. 155 beginning "O Thou most Holy Trinity," being a translation of stanza iv. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]

-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)