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Anonymous

Person Name: Okänd Composer of "[Alla Herrens vägar äro]" in Andeliga Sånger (3. upplagan) In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.

Carolina Sandell

1823 - 1903 Person Name: Lina Sandell Author of "Vid en skiljeväg" in Sions Basun Caroline W. Sandell Berg (b. Froderyd, Sweden, 1832; d. Stockholm, Sweden, 1903), is better known as Lina Sandell, the "Fanny Crosby of Sweden." "Lina" Wilhelmina Sandell Berg was the daughter of a Lutheran pastor to whom she was very close; she wrote hymns partly to cope with the fact that she witnessed his tragic death by drowning. Many of her 650 hymns were used in the revival services of Carl O. Rosenius, and a number of them gained popularity particularly because of the musical settings written by gospel singer Oskar Ahnfelt. Jenny Lind, the famous Swedish soprano, underwrote the cost of publishing a collection of Ahnfelt's music, Andeliga Sänger (1850), which consisted mainly of Berg's hymn texts. Bert Polman

Charles Jeffreys

Person Name: Charles Jefferys Author of "Meek and Lowly" in The Bright Array

R. A. John

Person Name: R. A. John, P. Author of "Barmherzigkeit" in Unser Kirchenchor

C. A. Weiss

1857 - 1935 Person Name: C. A. Weiß Arranger of "[Holde Liebe, reine Triebe]" in Unser Kirchenchor

Charles Jeffries

b. 1896 Person Name: Charles Jefferys Author of "Meek and Lowly" in Glorious Praise Jeffries, Sir Charles Joseph. (Beckenham, Kent, UK, 1896--December 10, 1972, Bromley, London). Church of England. Son of C.D. Jeffries. Married Myrtle Bennett, 1921. Graduated Malvern College and Magdalen College, Oxford. Lieutenant, Wilts Regiment, British Army, 1915-1917; Second Class Clerk, Colonial Office, 1917-1920; Principal, Colonial Office, 1920-1930; Assistant Secretary and Establishment Officer, Colonial Office, 1930-1939; Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Colonial Office, 1939-1947; Joint Department Under-Secretary of State, Colonial Office, 1947-1956. Vice president for many years of the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel; member of the governing board of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; member of the House of Laity, Anglican Church, 1950-1955. Officer, Order of the British Empire, 1937; Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George, 1943. He wrote numerous books about Britain's colonial empire, and numerous articles on Christian unity. In his more famous book, Towards the Centre (1958), he described the "Centre" not as Rome, Canterbury, or Jerusalem, but Christ, who draws all men to himself. He wrote one hymn, "Speak Forth Your Word," which was first published in The Hymn Book of the Anglican Church of Canada and the United Church of Canada (1975). --C. Bernard Ruffin, DNAH Archives