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Kannst du, Jesu, wohl vergessen

Author: Ernst Gottlieb Woltersdorf

Woltersdorf: Ernst Gottlieb W., as a hymn writer, preacher, prolific writer and educators in the field of Erbauungslitteratur one of the most outstanding representatives of pietistic healthy heart and mind towards the middle of the 18th Century. He was born on 31 May 1725 as the sixth son of the preacher to Gabriel Luke Friedrichsfelde in Berlin, who was appointed 10 years after its birth as a preacher at the St. George Church in Berlin. The blessing of a serious Christian education accompanied him to the Berlin High School to the gray convent, from which he received in 1742, only 17 years old, the University of Halle, to be under the direction of the pietistic school teachers belonging to J. Lange, Michael, Baumgarten and Knapp to pay the… Go to person page >

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Text Information

First Line: Kannst du, Jesu, wohl vergessen
Author: Ernst Gottlieb Woltersdorf
Language: German
Copyright: Public Domain
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Tune

RATHBUN

This story is associated with the writing of RATHBUN: One Sunday in 1849 Ithamar Conkey (b. Shutesbury, MA, 1815; d. Elizabeth, NJ, 1867) walked out of the morning service at Central Baptist Church, Norwich, Connecticut, where he was choir director and organist, frustrated because only one soprano f…

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[Dass es auf der armen Erde]


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Die Glaubensharfe (With Melodies) #161

Die Glaubensharfe (With Melodies) #161
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Die Glaubensharfe #161

Die Glaubensharfe #161
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Gesangbuch mit Noten #194

Gesangbuch mit Noten #194
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Gesangbuch mit Noten #194

Gesangbuch mit Noten #194
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