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Transaltor: انيس الخوري المقدسي

انيس الخوري المقدسي ولد في طرابلس في لبنان. كان قد تعلم في المدارس التبشيرية، وعمل أستاذًا للغةِ العربية في الجامعة الأمريكية، وكان عضو المجمع العلمي العربي في دمشق. وكذلك عضو مجمع اللغة العربية في القاهرة منذ سنة 1961 Anis Khuri Makdisi Go to person page >

Author: Phillips Brooks

Brooks, Phillips, D.D., was born at Boston, Dec. 13, 1835, graduated at Harvard College 1855, and was ordained in 1859. Successively Rector of the Church of the Advent, Philadelphia, and Trinity Church, Boston, he became Bishop of Mass. in 1891, and died at Boston in Jan., 1893. His Carol, "O little town of Bethlehem," was written for his Sunday School in 1868, the author having spent Christmas, 1866, at Bethlehem. His hymn, "God hath sent His angels to the earth again," is dated 1877. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)  Go to person page >