God Brought Me to This Time and Place

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God brought me to this time and place

Author: Emilie Juliane, 1637-1706; Translator: F. Samuel Janzow, b. 1913
Tune: ALLEIN GOTT IN DER HÖH
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	Father, Son and Holy Spirit

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Author: Emilie Juliane, 1637-1706

Emilie Juliane was daughter of Count Albert Friedrich of Barby and Mühlingen (on the Elbe, near its junction with the Saale). During the Thirty Years' war her father and family had to seek refuge in the Heidecksburg, the castle of his uncle, Count Ludwig Günther of Schwarzburg Rudolstadt, and Emilie was born at the Heidecksburg, Aug. 16, 1637. After the death of her father (1641) and mother (1642), she was adopted by her mother's sister (who was her godmother, and had become the wife of Count Ludwig Günther), and was educated at Rudolstadt with her cousins, under the care of Dr. Ahasuerus Fritsch, and other tutors. She became the wife of her cousin, Albert Anton, July 7, 1665, and died at Rudolstadt, Dec. 3, 1706 (Koch, iv. 56-63; Allg.… Go to person page >

Translator: F. Samuel Janzow, b. 1913

F. Samuel Janzow was Professor of English at Concordia University Chicago from 1954 to 1980. NNM Go to person page >

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Text Information

Text Information

First Line:	God brought me to this time and place
Title:	God Brought Me to This Time and Place
Author:	Emilie Juliane, 1637-1706
Translator:	F. Samuel Janzow, b. 1913
Meter:	8.7.8.7.8.8.7
Language:	English
Publication Date:	1982
Copyright:	This text may still be under copyright because it was published in 1982.

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ALLEIN GOTT IN DER HÖH

The tune name ALLEIN GOTT derives from the opening words of Decius's rhymed text in High German. The tune was first published in Schumann's Geistliche Lieder. Decius adapted the tune from a tenth-century Easter chant for the Gloria text, beginning at the part accompanying the words "et in terra pax.…

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