Short Name: | Samuel Marot |
Full Name: | Marot, Samuel, 1770-1865 |
Birth Year: | 1770 |
Death Year: | 1865 |
Marot, Samuel, D.D., was born at Magdeburg, Dec. 11,1770, and studied at the University of Frankfurt a. Oder. On July 1, 1798, he was ordained as preacher to the Orphanage (Friedrichs-Waisenhaus) at Berlin. In 1808 he was appointed preacher at the Neue Kirche; in 1816 superintendent of the Reformed Churches in Berlin; and also became Consistorialrath in 1830, and Oberconsistorialrath in 1846 (D.D. from University of Berlin, 1846). He died at Berlin, Oct. 12, 1865 (Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, xx. 404, &c). He was one of the Committee which compiled the Berlin Gesang-Buch, 1829. The only hymn known by him is:—
Vondes Himmels Thron. Confirmation. Contributed to the Berlin Gesang-Buch, 1829, as No. 350, in 5 st. of 61. Its excellence and simplicity have gained it a place in many recent German collections, as the Berlin Geistliche Lieder, &c., ed. 1863, No. 1614. Translated as:—
From Thy heav'nly throne . A good and full translation by Miss Winkworth as No. 91 in her Chorale Book for England, 1863; repeated in the Parish Hymn Book, 1875. [Rev. James Mearns]
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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