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Andreas Knoepken

1490 - 1539 Person Name: Knöpken Hymnal Number: 333 Author of "Laß uns in deiner Liebe" in Gesangbuch der Evangelischen Brüdergemeinen in Nord Amerika (Neue vermehrte Aufl.) Knöpken, Andreas (Cnophius), was born at Kustrin (Custrin) about 1490. He was for some time assistant in the school at Treptow, in East Pomerania, under Bugenhagen. But as they both espoused the cause of the Reformation, they had to flee from Treptow in 1521, Bugenhagen to Wittenberg, and Knopken to Riga. At Riga Knöpken conducted a successful disputation with the monks, and was appointed by tbe Council and burgesses evangelical archidiaconus of St. Peter's Church, where he began his work Oct. 23, 1522. He died at Riga, Feb. 18, 1539. Knöpken's hymns are almost all Psalm versions. Three appeared under the title of Ethlike psalmen dorch Andream Knöpken vordütscht as an Appendix to B. Waldis's De parabell vam vorlorn Szohn, Riga, 1527. The rest appeared in the Riga Kirchenordnung, 1530, 1537, &c. See the introduction to Dr. J. Geffcken's reprint (Hannover, 1862) of the various eds. of this Kirchenordnung. Knöpken's hymns translated into English are:— i. Hilff Gott, wie geht das immer zu. Ps. ii. 1527, as above, and thence in Wackernagel, iii. pp. 99-103, in 8 stanzas of 7 lines, beginning “Help Godt, wo geyt dat yûmer to." The High German form is in the Zwickau Enchiridion, 1628. Translated as "Quhat is the caus, O God omnipotent" in the Gude and Godlie Ballates, 1568, f. 44 (1868, p. 74). ii. Yon alien Menschen abgewandt. Ps. xxv. 1527, as above, and thence in Wackernagel, iii. pp. 105-109, in 12 stanzas of 7 lines, beginning "Van alien Mynschen afgewandt." In High German in V. Schumann's Gesang-Buch Leipzig, 1539. Translated as "I lyft my soule, Lorde, up to the, My God," by Bp. Coverdale, 1539 (Remains, 1846, p. 578). A hymn frequently, but erroneously, ascribed to Knöpken is noted under Cruciger, E. (p. 271 i.). [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Johann Job

1664 - 1736 Person Name: J. Job, g. 1664 † 1736 Hymnal Number: 467 Author of "Sollt' er was sagen und nicht halten?" in Gesangbuch der Evangelischen Brüdergemeinen in Nord Amerika (Neue vermehrte Aufl.)

S. F. Lintrup

? - 1758 Person Name: S. Lintrup, † 1758 Hymnal Number: 536 Author of "Mein Heiland, wirf doch einen Blick" in Gesangbuch der Evangelischen Brüdergemeinen in Nord Amerika (Neue vermehrte Aufl.)

Wolfgang Christoph Dessler

1660 - 1722 Person Name: W. C. Deßler, g. 1660 † 1722 Hymnal Number: 188 Author of "Ich kriech', Erlöser, dir zu Füßen" in Gesangbuch der Evangelischen Brüdergemeinen in Nord Amerika (Neue vermehrte Aufl.) Dessler, Wolfgang Christoph, son of Nicolaus Dessler, jeweller, at Nürnberg, was born at Nürnberg, Feb. 11, 1660. His father wished him to become a goldsmith, but, as he was not physically suited for this, he was permitted to begin the study of theology at the University of Altdorf. His poverty and bodily weakness forced him to leave before completing his course, and, returning to Nurnberg, he supported himself there as a proof reader. Becoming acquainted with Erasmus Finx or Francisci, then residing in Nürnberg, he was employed by Finx as his amanuensis, and at his request translated many foreign religious works into German. In 1705 he was appointed Conrector of the School of the Holy Ghost at Nürnberg, where he laboured with zeal and acceptance till 1720, when, by a stroke of paralysis, he was forced to resign. Finally, after an illness which lasted about 35 weeks, he died at Nürnberg, March 11,1722. Of his hymns, in all over 100, the best appeared, many with melodies by himself, in his volume of meditations entitled:— Gottgeheiligter Christen Nützlich Ergetzende Seelenlust unter den Blumen Gottliches Worts, oder andächtige Betrachtungen und Gedanken über unterschiedliche erläuterte Schriftspruche, &c. Nürnberg, 1692 [Berlin] (Koch, iii. 531-535, and iv. 566-567). From this work (the references to which have been kindly supplied by Dr. Zahn of Altdorf, from his copy), five hymns have been translated into English, viz.:— Hymns in English common use:— i. Ich lass dich nicht, du musst mein Jesus bleiben. [Constancy to Christ.] Founded on Genesis xxxii. 36. First published 1692, as above, p. 553, along with Meditation xviii., which is entitled "The striving love." Wetzel (A. H., vol. i., pt. iv., p. 20) says it was sung, at her re¬quest, Sept. 5, 1726, at the deathbed of Christiana Eberhardina, a pious Queen of Poland. In the Berlin Geistliche Liedersegen

Johann Adam Flessa

1694 - 1775 Person Name: J. A. Flessa, g. 1694 † 1776 Hymnal Number: 284 Author of "Ich will dich immer treuer lieben" in Gesangbuch der Evangelischen Brüdergemeinen in Nord Amerika (Neue vermehrte Aufl.)

A. Jaeschke

1718 - 1762 Person Name: A. Jäschke, g. 1718 † 1762 Hymnal Number: 733 Author of "Seligs's Chor der Kinder" in Gesangbuch der Evangelischen Brüdergemeinen in Nord Amerika (Neue vermehrte Aufl.) Jäschke, Nikolaus Andreas, b. Dec. 6, 1718, in Moravia. Moravian minister at Berlin. 1760 director of the Moravian mission in India, d. Jan. 1, 1762, at Tranquebar. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

J. Rosenthal

1615 - 1690 Person Name: J. Rosenthal, g. 1615 † 1690 Hymnal Number: 786 Author of "Was ist unsre Lebenszeit?" in Gesangbuch der Evangelischen Brüdergemeinen in Nord Amerika (Neue vermehrte Aufl.)

Johann Friedrich Francke

Person Name: J. F. Franke Hymnal Number: 899 Author of "O du, der Witwer höchstes Gut" in Gesangbuch der Evangelischen Brüdergemeinen in Nord Amerika (Neue vermehrte Aufl.)

Gottfried Clemens

1706 - 1776 Person Name: G. Clemens Hymnal Number: 899 Author of "O du, der Witwer höchstes Gut" in Gesangbuch der Evangelischen Brüdergemeinen in Nord Amerika (Neue vermehrte Aufl.) Clemens, Gottfried, b. Sept. 1, 1706, at Berlin. Moravian minister at Berlin, Gnadenfrei, and Herrnhut. d. at Herrnhut, March 23, 1776. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Herrmann Reinhard Schick

1704 - 1771 Person Name: R. Schick, g. 1704 † 1771 Hymnal Number: 250 Author of "Gesalbeter Heiland, verordnet zum Segnen" in Gesangbuch der Evangelischen Brüdergemeinen in Nord Amerika (Neue vermehrte Aufl.)