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Lucas Bacmeister

1578 - 1638 Person Name: Lucas Backmeister Hymnal Number: d219 Author of "Jesu, meiner Seelen Ruh" in Evangelisch-Lutherisches Gesang-Buch worin 500 der...fuer Gemeinen, welche sich zur unveraen ... Augsburgischen Confession

Petrus Hagius

Hymnal Number: d104 Author of "Freu dich, du werthe Christenheit, dies ist der tag" in Evangelisch-Lutherisches Gesang-Buch worin 500 der...fuer Gemeinen, welche sich zur unveraen ... Augsburgischen Confession

Johann Kolross

1487 - 1558 Person Name: Johann Kohlross Hymnal Number: d186 Author of "Ich dank' dir, lieber Herre, Dass du mich" in Evangelisch-Lutherisches Gesang-Buch worin 500 der...fuer Gemeinen, welche sich zur unveraen ... Augsburgischen Confession Kolross, Johann (called Rhodanthracius), is said to have been a pastor at Basel, and to have died there in 1558. In his Encheridion, Nürnberg, 1529 (later ed., 1534. It is a manual of orthography), he calls himself teacher of German (Teutsch Lehermayster) at Basel; and so in his Scriptural play (Ein schön spil von Fünfferley betrachtnussen den menschen zur Buss reytzende. It is on the motives of the Dance of Death at Basel), performed at Basel on the 1st S. after Easter, 1532, and printed at Basel, 1532 (Goedeke's Grundriss, 1886, ii. 181, 337, 343, &c). The only hymn by him translated into English is:— Ich dank dir lieber Herre. Morning. First published separately at Nürnberg, c. 1535, and thence in Wackernagel, iii. p. 86, in 9 stanzas of 8 lines.Included in V. Schumann's Gesang-Buch, Leipzig, 1539, the Berlin Geistlicher Lieder Schatz, ed, 1863, No. nil, &c. It has been characterised as containing "all the leading thoughts of the Reformation." The translations are from the greatly altered form in 6 stanzas, beginning "Das walten deine Wunden," given as No. 1800 in Appx. xii., c. 1744, to the Herrnhut Gesang-Buch, 1735, and in the Brüder Gesang-Buch, 1778, No. 1509. They are, (1) "Thy Wounds, Lord, be my Safeguard," as No. 324 in pt. i. of the Moravian Hymn Book, 1754. In the edition of 1849, 2 stanzas are repeated, st. v. beginning "Lord Christ! I give Thee praises," as No. 1006, and st. iv. beginning "Amidst this world's profaneness," as No. 610. To Kolross has also been ascribed (as in the Zürich Gesang-Buch, 1570) a version of Ps. cxxvii., which 1st appeared in the Zwickau Enchiridion, 1525, and begins "So (Wo) Gott zum Haus nicht giebt sein Gunst." A rendering of Ps. cxxvii. is given under this first line in J. C. Jacobi's Psalmodia Germanica, 1722, p. 35 (1732, p. 60), but it is not from the Ger¬man, and is simply the L.M. version of this Psalm by Isaac Watts. A hymn also ascribed to Kolross is noted under Magdeburg, J. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Johann Campanus

1565 - 1622 Hymnal Number: d201 Author of "Ihr Himmel troepfelt Tau in Eil" in Evangelisch-Lutherisches Gesang-Buch worin 500 der...fuer Gemeinen, welche sich zur unveraen ... Augsburgischen Confession Campanus, Johann, was born on June 24, c. 1565, at Wodnian in Bohemia. At the Uni¬versity of Prag (Prague), he graduated b.a. 1592, M.A. 1596. In 1592 he became master at Iglau, thereafter at Teplitz, and then professor at Königingratz. He was in 1596 appointed Rector of the St. Heinrich school, in the Neustadt, Prag, and in 1600 Rector at Kuttenberg. Ultimately he became Professor of Greek and Latin and of Bohemian History in the University of Prag, where he was some time Dean of the Philosophical Faculty, and in 1612 Rector of the University. He died at Prag, Dec. 13, 1622. Brought up at Wodnian as a Hussite, he became a Lutheran; then a Calvinist; was in 1619 assessor of the Utraquist Consistory of the Teynkirche in the Altstadt, Prag; and on Nov. 16,1622, formally became a Roman Catholic. His Latin Version of the Psalms, pub. at Prag, 1611, and his Latin Odes, Prag, 1612, were introduced for the senior scholars to sing in church and school. A complete ed. of his sacred poems appeared as Sacrarum Odarum Libri Duo. Quorum Prior Psalmos Davidicos, Posterior hymnos Dominicales et feriales continet. Accessere Cantica Canticorum in Odaria liii. nee non Melodiae pro omnibus Psalmis, Odis, & Canticorum Odariist ejusdem Authoris. Frankfurt-am-Main, 1618. [Wernigerode] A full list of his works is given in his Biographie, by G. J. Dlabcz, Prag, 1819. Two of his poems have passed into English: i. Borando coeli defluant. Advent. First published in his Odarum Sacrarum. Liber Posterior, Prag,v1612 [Strahow, Prag.], p. 1, "Ode 1, De Adventu Domini” in 5 stanzas of 4 lines, with the heading :— "Sol Christus est, ros Christus est, hie quern rigat Fovetque, frigus pellit, aestum mitigat." It appears in a full and good German translated in Johann Franck's Geistliches Sum, 1674, No. 2, (ed. 1846, p. 2), beginning:— “lhr Himmel tröpfelt Thau in Eil." Franck's version was included in the 1688 (No. 317) and later editions of Crüger's Praxis pietatis melica; in Bunsen's Versuch, 1833, No. 85, and his Allgemeine Gesang-Buch, 1846, No. 29. Bunsen, 1833, p. 878, calls it "One of the most profound hymns of that believing yearning, which recognises in the Incarnation of Christ the pledge of the union of God with the soul." The only translation in common use from Franck is:— Ye heavens, oh haste your dews to shed, in full in the 2nd Series, 1858, of Miss Winkworth's Lyra Germanica, p. 3. Thence as No. 20 in her Chorale Book for England, 1863, and as No. 15 in Bosworth's Collection, 1865. Stanzas ii.-v. beginning, "O living Sun, with joy break forth," are included as No. 121 in Dr. Thomas's Augustine Hymn Book, 1866. Another translation is "Descend, ye heavens, in gentle dews," by Dr. G. Walker, 1860, p. 25. ii. Veni Kedemptor gentium. Advent. Ode ii. of his Liber Posterior ed., 1612, p. 2 (1618, p. 276), in 7 stanzas of 4 lines, headed " Ex hymno Ambrosii. “Alvus tumescit virginis Quantum potest vis Numinis." Two stanzas may be compared with the Ambrosian, viz.:— "Veni Redemptor gentium, Pulchrum renide lilium Splendore fulgens flammeo: Hie partus est dignus Deo! vii. 41 Praesepe iam tuum micat, Lumenque noctis emicat, Quod nulla lux interpolet Ut luceat plus quam solet." A full and good German translation by Johann Franck, beginning " Komm, Heiden-Heiland, Lösegeld," appears in C. Peter's Geistliche Arien, Guben, 1667, No. 1, repeated in his own Geistliches Sion, 1674, p. 1 (ed. 1846, p. 1); and'included in many subsequent collections as the Berlin Geistliche Liedersegen, ed. 1863, No. 1596. The form tr. into English is that in Bunsen's Versuch, 1833, No. 78 (1881, No. 11). Bunsen, doubtless not knowing that it was a direct tr. from Campanus, calls it at p. 878 "the only successful version from the Ambrosian hymn [Veni Redemptor], more profound and delightful than the Latin." Bunsen omits stanzas ii., iii., and alters i., iv. The translations in common use are:— 1. Redeemer of the nations, come. By Miss Wink worth in full from Bunsen in the 1st series of her Lyra Germanica, 1855, p. 186, repeated in her Chorale Book for England, 1863, No. 23, and in Dr. Thomas's Augustine Hymn Book, 1866. 2. Come, Ransom of our captive race. From Bunsen, omitting his stanza iii., as No. 3 in Dr. Pagenstecher's Collection, 1864, signed "F.C.C." 3. O Glory of Thy chosen race. In full from Bunsen by Dr. F. J. A. Hort for Church Hymns, 1871, No. 70, with an added doxology. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Bartholomäus Fröhlich

? - 1587 Person Name: Bartholomaeus Froelich Hymnal Number: d87 Author of "Ein Wuermlein bin ich arm und klein" in Evangelisch-Lutherisches Gesang-Buch worin 500 der...fuer Gemeinen, welche sich zur unveraen ... Augsburgischen Confession

Johann C. Arnschwanger

1625 - 1696 Person Name: Johann Christoph Arnschwanger Hymnal Number: d161 Author of "Herr Jesu, aller Menschen Hort" in Evangelisch-Lutherisches Gesang-Buch worin 500 der...fuer Gemeinen, welche sich zur unveraen ... Augsburgischen Confession Arnschwanger, Johann Christoph, son of Georg Arnschwanger, merchant in Nürnberg, was born at Nürnberg Dec. 28, 1625. He entered the University of Altdorf in 1644, and that of Jena in 1647, where he graduated M.A. Aug. 9, 1647. After short periods of residence at Leipzig, Hamburg, and Helmstädt he returned to Nürnberg in 1650. There he was successively appointed Stadt-vicar in 1651, Diaconus of the St. Aegidien Church 1652, Morning Preacher in St. Walpurga's 1654, and Diaconus of the Church of St. Lorenz 1659. where he became Senior 1670, and Archidiaconus 1690. He died at Nürnberg, Dec. 10, 1696. (Koch, iii. 517-520; Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, i. 597.) A lover of music and poesy, he was the correspondent of Anton Ulrich (q. v.) and a member of the Fruitbearing Society (1675). He did not join the Nürnberg Pegnitz Shepherd Order, seeking in his poetical work simplicity and fitness for popular use rather than their somewhat affected “learnedness." The best of his hymns, some 400 in all, the most important being those published in 1659, appeared in his:— i. Neuegeistliche Lieder, Nürnberg, 1659, in two books, each containing 20 hymns, set to music by the best organists and choir masters in Nürnberg. ii. Heilige Palmen und Christliche Psalmen, Nürnberg, 1680, with 150 hymns in three divisions, with melodies by the musicians of Nürnberg. Of these hymns the only one translated into English is:— Auf, ihr Christen, lasst uns singen. [Easter.] First published in 1659 as above, Bk. i., No. 13, in 12 stanzas of 11 lines, entitled "On the Victorious Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, in which our future Resurrection is also set forth." Included in the Nürnberg Gesang-buch, 1676, No. 227, as No. 98 in pt. ii., 1714, of Freylinghausen's Gesang-Buch, and recently (reduced to stanzas i., ix.) as No. 213 in the Berlin Gesang-Buch, 1829. The only translation in common use is, “Up, ye Christians, join in singing," from the Berlin Gesang-Buch in N. L. Frothingham's Metrical Pieces, Boston, U.S., 1870, p. 194, and thence altered and beginning, "Rise, ye Christians," as No. 644 in the Swedenborgian Collection, Lond., 1880. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

John Dreisbach

1789 - 1871 Hymnal Number: d71 Author of "Den Weisen scheint ein neuer Stern" in Evangelisch-Lutherisches Gesang-Buch worin 500 der...fuer Gemeinen, welche sich zur unveraen ... Augsburgischen Confession Dreisbach, John (or Johannes). (Buffalo Valley, Pennsylvania, 1789--1871). Evangelical. Self-educated, proficient in both German and English. Licensed at age 17, was assistant to Albright, the founder of his denomination. Was leader of his denomination from 1808: secretary of Conference, presiding elder 1814, publishing agent 1820. With Henry Niebel compiled Das Geistliche Saitenspiel (1817), with Daniel Bertolet compiled Eine Sammlung Neuer Geistlicher Lieder (1821), which included many of his own hymns. Wrote or translated 31 of the 149 hymns in the extremely popular and persistent Geistlich Viole (1818), which has been described as the most important German-language hymnbook of the pre-Civil War period. Dreisbach's purchase (at a cost equivalent to his eight-year salary) of a printing press in 1815 led to the beginning of the ambitious printing program of his denomination. His best-known original hymns are "Komm Jung, komm Alt, zum Gnadenbrunn," and "Herr Jesu Christ O Gottes Lamm." He is considered one of the three most important early Evangelical hymn writers. Many of his hymns appeared originally as broadsides. --Ellen Jane Lorenz, DNAH Archives

Erasmus Alber

1500 - 1553 Hymnal Number: d126 Author of "Gott hat das Evangelium gegeben" in Evangelisch-Lutherisches Gesang-Buch worin 500 der...fuer Gemeinen, welche sich zur unveraen ... Augsburgischen Confession Alber, Erasmus, son of Tileman Alber, afterwards pastor at Engelroth, was born at Sprendlingen c. 1500. After studying at Wittenberg under Luther and Melanchthon, he became, in 1525, schoolmaster at St. Ursel, near Frankfurt-am-Main, and in 1527 at Heldenbergen, in Hesse Darmstadt. In 1528 he was appointed by the Landgrave Philip of Hesse pastor at Sprendlingen and Götzenhain, where he devoted himself specially to the children of his charge. After 11 years' service he was appointed by the Elector Joachim of Brandenburg court preacher at Berlin, but proving too faithful for the court, was, in 1541, removed as chief pastor to Neu Brandenburg. In 1542 he became pastor at Stade, in Wetteravia, and while there received, in 1513, the degree of Doctor of Theology from the University of Wittenberg. He was then invited, in the beginning of 1545, by the Landgrave Philip IV. of Hanau Lichtenberg, to perfect the work of the Reformation in Babenhausen, but no sooner had he fairly entered upon it than, in the end of October, he received his dismissal. After a short stay at Sprendlingen and at Wittenberg, he became preacher at Magdeburg, where he strongly denounced the Interim (see Agricola). On the capitulation of Magdeburg, in 1551, after a 14 months' siege, he fled to Hamburg, and then went to Lübeck. Finally, in 1552, he was appointed by Duke Albrecht I. of Mecklenburg, General Superintendent of Mecklenburg, and preacher at St. Mary's Church in Neu Brandenburg. In addition to losing all his own and his wife's property by confiscation and necessary expenditure, he was there unable to obtain from the Town Council the payment of his stipend. On May 4, 1553, he applied for the payment of 60 florins to relieve his urgent necessities. The refusal broke his heart. He returned home to die, and fell asleep at 9 a.m. on May 5, 1553. One of the best writers for children in his day, and an ardent controversialist and martyr of freedom of speech, he has been by some ranked, as a hymn-writer, next to Luther, in the Reformation period. His hymns, 20 in all, were first collected by Dr. Stromberger, and published at Halle, 1857. Being mostly long, and ungainly in style, not many of them have kept a place in the hymn-books, though they have been justly styled "powerful and living witnesses of a steadfast faith and a manly trust in God's Word" (Koch, i. 301-306; Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie i. 219-20; Dr. Stromberger's Preface; Bode, pp. 35-36—the last stating that his father was a school¬master at Sprendlingen.) Two have been translated into English. One of these, beginning "Christe, du bist der hello Tag," is a translation, and is noted under, "Christe qui lux es et dies." The only original hymn by Alber translated into English is:— 1. Nun freut euch Gottes Kinder all. [Ascension.] First published on a broadsheet, N.P. N.D., 1549, and thence in Wackernagel, iii. p. 881, in 29 stanzas of 4 lines. In a broadsheet at Nürnberg, c. 1555, it is entitled, "Of the Fruits of the Ascension of our Lord Christ and of the Gifts of the Holy Spirit," and begins—"Freut euch ihr Gottes Kinder all." This form is included in Dr. Stromberger's edition of Alber's Geistliche Lieder, 1857, p. 5. In the hymn-books it is generally abridged, and so the Berlin Geistliche Lieder, ed. 1863, 339, gives 16 stanzas (i.-vi., ix.-xi., xiii., xviii., xxv.-xxix., of the first form). A translation:— 0 Children of your God rejoice, of stanzas i., ii., iv., xxvii.-xxix., by A. T. Russell, is given as No. 122, in his Psalms & Hymns 1851. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Burkhard Wiesenmeyer

Person Name: r Wiesenmeyer Hymnal Number: d417 Author of "Wie schoen leucht' uns [leuchtet] der Morgenstern, Vom [Am] Firmament" in Evangelisch-Lutherisches Gesang-Buch worin 500 der...fuer Gemeinen, welche sich zur unveraen ... Augsburgischen Confession Wiesenmeyer, Burchard, was a native of Helmstadt, and died at Petershagen (probably Petershagen near Alt-Landsberg), apparently before 1691. He was from 1637 to 1644, and probably somewhat longer, one of the masters in the Greyfriars Gymnasium at Berlin. (Koch, iii. 341; M. Michael Schirmer. By Dr. J. F. Bachmann, Berlin, 1859, p. 220, &c.) He assisted in preparing the two hymn-books which his colleague at Berlin, Johann Crüger (p. 271, Nos. 1, 4), issued in 1640 and 1653. To these he contributed a few recasts of earlier hymns. The only one translation into English is noted at p. 1091, i. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Friedrich Stohlmann

1780 - 1863 Person Name: J. F. C. Stohlmann Hymnal Number: d418 Author of "Wie schoen leucht' unsder Morgenstern, Mit seinen Gnadengaben" in Evangelisch-Lutherisches Gesang-Buch worin 500 der...fuer Gemeinen, welche sich zur unveraen ... Augsburgischen Confession Johann Friedrich Christian Stohlmann was born in Jossen, near Petershagen (Germany) on April 16, 1780. He was schoolmaster at Eldagsen from 1794-1796. Later, in 1807 he became teacher and organist at Klienbremmen. In 1808 he married Auguste Marie Gruntzner. He was also a painter. In 1834 he and his family immigrated to the United States, settling near Erie, PA. His son, Carl F. Stohlmann became pastor of St. Peters Evangelical church in Erie. He died in 1863.