Ich bin getauft auf deinem Namen. J. J. Rambach. [Holy Baptism.] First published as one of the 8 hymns which form pt. iii. of his Erbauliches Handbüchlein für Kinder, Giessen, 1734, in 7 stanzas of 6 lines, entitled "Daily Renewal of the Baptismal Covenant" (Bode, p. 286). Included as No. 363 in his Geistreiches Haus Gesang-Buch, 1735, and recently as No, 457 in the Berlin Gesitliche Lieder, ed. 1863. It is one of the finest of his hymns. The translations in common use are:—
1. I am baptized into Thy name. In full, by Miss Winkworth, in her Lyra Germanica, 2nd series, 1858, p. 91. Repeated more or less abridged inHoly Song, 1869, and in America in Boardman's Selection, 1861; Baptist Service of Song, 1871; and Methodist Episcopal Hymnal, 1878.
2. Baptized into Thy name most holy. A good translation, omitting stanza vi., by Miss Winkworth, as No. 92 in her Chorale Book for England, 1863. Repeated in full, and with a translation of stanza vi. added, in the Ohio Lutheran Hymnal, 1880. With stanza iv. omitted it is found in the 1880 Supplementto the Baptist Psalms & Hymns and in Alton's Congregational Psalmist Hymnal, 1886.
3. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, I'm baptized in Thy dear Name. A good translation, omitting stanza vi., as No. 323 in the Pennsylvania Lutheran Church Book, 1868, marked as translated by Charles William Schaeffer, D. D., 1860. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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