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George Henry Trabert

1843 - 1931 Person Name: G. H. Trabert, 1843-1931 Hymnal Number: 342 Translator of "O Paschal Feast, What Joy Is Thine" in Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary

1813 - 1893 Person Name: J. S. Dwight, 1813-93 Hymnal Number: 602 Author (st. 2) of "God Bless Our Native Land" in Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary John Sullivan Dwight, born, in Boston, May 13, 1813, was a virtuoso in music, and an enthusiastic student of the art and science of tonal harmony. He joined a Harvard musical club known as "The Pierian Sodality" while a student at the University, and after his graduation became a prolific writer on musical subjects. Six years of his life were passed in the "Brook Farm Community." He was best known by his serial magazine, Dwight's Journal of Music, which was continued from 1852 to 1881. His death occurred in 1893. The Story of the Hymns and Tunes, Brown & Butterworth, 1906. ===================== Dwight, John Sullivan, son of Timothy Dwight (p. 316, ii.), was born at Boston, U.S.A., May 13, 1812, and educated at Harvard, and at the Cambridge Theological College. He laboured in the ministry for six years, and then devoted himself to literary work. For nearly 30 years he was editor of a Journal of Music. His connection with hymnody is very slight. (See "God bless our native land," p. 1566, i.) --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Franz Xaver Gruber

1787 - 1863 Person Name: F. X. Gruber, 1787-1863 Hymnal Number: 140 Composer of "STILLE NACHT" in Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary Franz Xaver Gruber (1787-1863) was born into a linen weaver's family and studied violin and organ even though his father wanted him to work in the family business. In addition to serving as parish organist for St. Nicholas Church in Obendorf, he taught school in nearby Arnsdorf (1807-1829) and Berndorf (1829-1833). He spent the balance of his career as organist and choir director in Hallein, where he founded the famous Hallein Choral Society. Bert Polman

Bertel Pedersen

Person Name: B. Pedersen Hymnal Number: 510 Author of "Fear and Love Thy God and Lord" in Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary

R. R. Ross

1817 - 1899 Person Name: R. R. Ross, 1817-1899 Hymnal Number: 289 Composer of "ST. PETER'S MANCHESTER" in Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary

John Francis Wade

1711 - 1786 Person Name: J. F. Wade, c. 1711-1786 Hymnal Number: 133 Author of "O Come, All Ye Faithful" in Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary John Francis Wade (b. England, c. 1711; d. Douay, France, 1786) is now generally recognized as both author and composer of the hymn "Adeste fideles," originally written in Latin in four stanzas. The earliest manuscript signed by Wade is dated about 1743. By the early nineteenth century, however, four additional stanzas had been added by other writers. A Roman Catholic, Wade apparently moved to France because of discrimination against Roman Catholics in eighteenth-century England—especially so after the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745. He taught music at an English college in Douay and hand copied and sold chant music for use in the chapels of wealthy families. Wade's copied manuscripts were published as Cantus Diversi pro Dominicis et Festis per annum (1751). Bert Polman

Robert E. Voelker

b. 1957 Person Name: R. E. Voelker Hymnal Number: 246 Translator of "God's Own Child, I Gladly Say It" in Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary

Frances Elizabeth Cox

1812 - 1897 Person Name: F. E. Cox, 1812-97 Hymnal Number: 353 Translator of "Jesus Lives! The Victory's Won" in Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary Cox, Frances Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. George V. Cox, born at Oxford, is well known as a successful translator of hymns from the German. Her translations were published as Sacred Hymns from the German, London, Pickering. The 1st edition, pub. 1841, contained 49 translations printed with the original text, together with biographical notes on the German authors. In the 2nd edition, 1864, Hymns from the German, London, Rivingtons, the translations were increased to 56, those of 1841 being revised, and with additional notes. The 56 translations were composed of 27 from the 1st ed. (22 being omitted) and 29 which were new. The best known of her translations are "Jesus lives! no longer [thy terrors] now" ; and ”Who are these like stars appearing ?" A few other translations and original hymns have been contributed by Miss Cox to the magazines; but they have not been gathered together into a volume. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Anne K. LeCroy

1930 - 2016 Person Name: A. K. LeCroy, b. 1930 Hymnal Number: 567 Reviser of "Christ, Mighty Savior" in Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary Rev. Anne LeCroy was a professor of English at East Tennessee State University. Following her work as a translator she was a vocational deacon in the diocese of East Tennessee, serving St. Timothy's in Kingsport, and St. John's in Johnson City. Dianne Shapiro, from email sent by Rev. Margaret Zeller, Rector, St. Christopher's, Kingsport

Alexander Ramsay Thompson

1822 - 1895 Person Name: A. R. Thompson, 1830-1887 Hymnal Number: 321 Translator of "Zion, to Thy Savior Singing" in Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary Thompson, Alexander Ramsay, D.D., a minister of the American Reformed Dutch Church, was born at New York, Oct. 22, 1822, and graduated at the New York University, 1842, and the Princeton Seminary, 1845. He was Reformed Dutch Pastor at various places, including East Brooklyn, St. Paul's (R. P. D.), New York City, North Reformed Church, Brooklyn (1874), and others. Dr. Thompson was joint editor of the Reformed Dutch Hymns of the Church, N. Y., 1869, and the Hymns of Prayer and Praise, 1871. He has contributed original hymns and translations from the Latin to these collections, to Schaff’s Christ in Song, 1869, and to the Sunday School Times, Philadelphia, 1883, &c. In addition two original hymns:— 1. 0 Thou Whose filmed and fading eye. Good Friday. 2. Wayfarers in the wilderness. Life a Pilgrimage. are in the Hymns of the Church, 1869, with the signature "A. R. T." [Rev F. M. Bird, M.A.] -- Excerpts from John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)