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Mein Jesus ist mein Leben

Appears in 15 hymnals Used With Tune: [Mein Jesus ist mein Leben]

[Mein Jesus ist mein Leben]

Appears in 1,594 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: G. J. Webb Incipit: 51131 16151 2325 Used With Text: Mein Jesus ist mein Leben

[Mein Jesus ist mein Leben]

Appears in 12 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Ernst Hauer Incipit: 55132 15223 11712 Used With Text: Mein Jesus ist mein Leben

[Mein Jesus ist mein Leben]

Appears in 43 hymnals Incipit: 51176 55511 6155 Used With Text: Mein Jesus ist mein Leben

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Mein Jesus ist mein Leben

Hymnal: Glockenklänge #122 (1904) Languages: German Tune Title: [Mein Jesus ist mein Leben]

Mein Jesus ist mein Leben

Hymnal: Perlen und Blüthen #44 (1890) Languages: German Tune Title: [Mein Jesus ist mein Leben]

Mein Jesus ist mein Leben

Hymnal: Zwei- und dreistimmige geistliche Lieder und Choräle #72a (1898) Languages: German Tune Title: [Mein Jesus ist mein Leben]

George James Webb

1803 - 1887 Person Name: G. J. Webb Composer of "[Mein Jesus ist mein Leben]" in Perlen und Blüthen George James Webb, b. 1803,England; d. 1887, Orange, N. J. Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908

1645 - 1722 Person Name: v. Schweinitz Author of "Mein Jesus ist mein Leben" in Gesangbuch für deutsche Gemeinden Schweinitz, Hans Christoph von, of Friedrichsdorf and Niederleube, son of Baron Hans Christoph von Schweinitz, of Crane and Hahnichen, in Silesia, was born at Crane, Feb. 1, 1645. After studying at Breslau, Strassbnrg, Leyden, and Paris, and taking a prolonged tour in Italy and elsewhere, he returned to Silesia in 1668, where he was appointed Landesältester for the district of Görlitz, and afterwards Rath and Kammerherr, by August II., in his capacity of King of Poland and Elector of Saxony. He resigned his post as Landesältester, in 1708, and retired to Leube, where he died Nov. 10, 1722. Only two hymns are known by him. One of these is:— Wird das nicht Freude sein? Eternal Life. This beautiful hymn, on the Joys of Heaven, was written on the death of his first wife, Theodora von Schweinitz (nee Festenberg). It was first printed, as a broadsheet, at Lauban, in 1691, with music, in 5 parts, by Christoph Adolph, diaconus at Niederwiese, who d. in 1698 (melody from this broadsheet in Dr. J. Zahn's Psalter und Harfe, 1886, No. 522). The broadsheet, of which there is a copy in the Town Library at Breslau, is entitled Den letzten Liebesdienst, &c, and has the note :—"The following hymn was composed from the late Frau von Schweinitz's own words, and from a conversation she held, shortly before her happy end, and was sung after the end of the [funeral] sermon." The translation in common use is:— Will that not joyful be? This is a full and very good translation by Mrs. Findlater, in Hymns from the Land of Luther, 1st Ser., 1854, p. 7. Another tr. is, “Will it not pleasure be." By Dr. H. Mills, 1845. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --Excerpts from John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)