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[Who is this, so weak and helpless] (Lorenz)
Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Edmund S. Lorenz Incipit: 55545 65534 44345
[Who is this, so weak and helpless] (Lorenz)
Who Is This?
Author: Anon. Appears in 55 hymnals First Line: Who is this, so weak and helpless Used With Tune: [Who is this, so weak and helpless]
Who Is This?
Who Is This?
Author: Anon. Hymnal: The Standard Sunday School Hymnal #6 (1888) First Line: Who is this so weak and helpless Refrain First Line: 'Tis the Lord of all creation Languages: English Tune Title: [Who is this so weak and helpless]
Who Is This?
Who Is This?
Author: Anon. Hymnal: Holy Voices #56 (1883) First Line: Who is this, so weak and helpless Languages: English Tune Title: [Who is this, so weak and helpless]
Who Is This?
Anonymous
Person Name: Anon. Author of "Who Is This?" in Holy Voices 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.
Anonymous
Edmund S. Lorenz
1854 - 1942 Person Name: E. S. Lorenz Composer of "[Who is this, so weak and helpless]" in Holy Voices Pseudonymns: John D. Cresswell, L. S. Edwards, E. D. Mund,
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Lorenz, Edmund Simon. (North Lawrence, Stark County, Ohio, July 13, 1854--July 10, 1942, Dayton, Ohio). Son of Edward Lorenz, a German-born shoemaker who turned preacher, served German immigrants in northwestern Ohio, and was editor of the church paper, Froehliche Botschafter, 1894-1900.
Edmund graduated from Toledo High School in 1870, taught German, and was made a school principal at a salary of $20 per week. At age 19, he moved to Dayton to become the music editor for the United Brethren Publishing House. He graduated from Otterbein College (B.A.) in 1880, studied at Union Biblical Seminary, 1878-1881, then went to Yale Divinity School where he graduated (B.D.) in 1883. He then spent a year studying theology in Leipzig, Germany.
He was ordained by the Miami [Ohio] Conference of the United Brethren in Christ in 1877. The following year, he married Florence Kumler, with whom he had five children. Upon his return to the United States, he served as pastor of the High Street United Brethren Church in Dayton, 1884-1886, and then as president of Lebanon Valley College, 1887-1889.
Ill health led him to resign his presidency. In 1890 he founded the Lorenz Publishing Company of Dayton, to which he devoted the remainder of his life. For their catalog, he wrote hymns, and composed many gospel songs, anthems, and cantatas, occasionally using pseudonyms such as E.D. Mund, Anna Chichester, and G.M. Dodge. He edited three of the Lorenz choir magazines, The Choir Leader, The Choir Herald, and Kirchenchor. Prominent among the many song-books and hymnals which he compiled and edited were those for his church: Hymns for the Sanctuary and Social Worship (1874), Pilgerlieder (1878), Songs of Grace (1879), The Otterbein Hymnal (1890), and The Church Hymnal (1934).
For pastors and church musicians, he wrote several books stressing hymnody: Practical Church Music (1909), Church Music (1923), Music in Work and Worship (1925), and The Singing Church (1938). In 1936, Otterbein College awarded him the honorary D.Mus. degree and Lebanon Valley College the honorary LL.D. degree.
--Information from granddaughter Ellen Jane Lorenz Porter, DNAH Archives
Edmund S. Lorenz
