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Eric Coates

1886 - 1957 Person Name: Eric Coates, 1886-1958 Composer of "DAM BUSTERS MARCH" in Trinity Hymnal (Rev. ed.)

1616 - 1664 Person Name: Andreas Gryphius, 1616-64 Author of "Preserve Your Word, O Savior" in Lutheran Worship Gryphius, Andreas, was born Oct. 2, 1616, at Gross-Glogau, in Silesia. He was educated at the School at Fraustadt, Silesia, 1631-34, and the Gymnasium at Danzig, 1634-36. After being for some time family tutor in the house of Baron Georg von Schönborn, near Fraustadt (who crowned him as a poet in 1637), he was forced by the Counter Reformation in Silesia to find refuge in Holland. He matriculated as a student at Leyden in 1638, and was afterwards till 1643 University Lecturer. Thereafter he accompanied the son of a rich Stettin burgess and two Pomeranian noblemen in a tour through France, Italy, Holland, and South Germany, and then, in the end of 1647, settled in Fraustadt. In 1650 he was appointed syndicus of the principality of Glogau, and while attending one of the meetings of the diet at Glogau, was struck by paralysis and died in the assembly house, July 16, 1664. Gryphius ranks as one of the principal poets of Silesia. The troublous events of his life, however, cast a gloom over most that he wrote, and his hymns especially are sombre in character. He was the first writer of German tragedies (Leo the Armenian; The Murdered Majesty; or, Charles Stuart of Great Britain, &c.) and one of the earliest writers of German comedy (Herr Peter Squenz; Horribilicribrifax; Die geliebte Domrose, an excellent little comedy in Silesian dialect, &c). Gryphius had begun writing sonnets about 1637, and his Son-und Feyrtage Sonnete were published at Leyden, 1639 [Berlin]; followed by his Sonnete, Erste Buch, 1643 [Berlin]. The first (pirated) edition of his collected poems appeared as his Teutsche Reimgedichte, Frankfurt am Main, 1650 [Berlin], and the first authorised edition as his Teutscher Gedichte, Erster Theil, Breslau, 1657 [Berlin], Those translated into English are:— i. Als der betrübte Tag zu Ende kommen. Entombment of Christ. No. 19 in Book iv. of his Odes (1657, p. 40), in 13 st. Translated as, "When that so troublous day was now concluded," as No. 167 in pt. i. of the Moravian Hymn Book, 1754. ii. Die Herrlichkeit der Erden. For the Dying. His best hymn. No. 9 in Book i. of his Odes (1650, p. 99; not in 1643), in 15 st., entitled "Vanitas! vanitatum vanitas." The translations are: (1) "Earth's boasted joys and splendour," by Dr. H. Mills, 1845. (2) "All glories of this earth decay” by Miss Winkworth, 1369, p. 177. iii. In meiner ersten Blüth. God is near. No. 36 in Book iv. of his Sonnets (1657, p. 116; not in 1643), entitled "Andreas Gryphius on his Sunday and Festival Sonnetts." Translated as, "In life's fair Spring," by Miss Winkworth, 1869, p. 179. iv. Je mehr wir Jahre zählen. New Year. No. 9 in Book iii. of his Odes (1657, p. 79), in 8 st. Translated as, "So many years of living," by N. L. Frothingham, 1870, p. 181 (from the recast "Wie viel wir"), in the Berlin Gesang-Buch, 1829, No. 835. Another hymn has been frequently ascribed to Andreas Gryphius, but we have failed to find it either in his works or in the works of Christian Grypbius. It is:— v. Es ist vollbracht! Gottlob es ist vollbracht. For the Dying. In the Vollständiges Hauss- und Kirchen Gesang-Buch, 9th ed., Breslau, 1726, No. 304, in 7 st. The translations are: (1) "It is finished! finished! yea," by Miss Dunn, 1857, p. 119. (2) "It is complete. My God, I thank Thy care," by G. Moultrie, in his Espousals of Saint Dorothea, 1870, p. 65. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Edward Patrick Crawford

1846 - 1912 Person Name: Edward Patrick Crawford, 1846-1912 Composer of "JEHOVAH NISSI" in Trinity Hymnal (Rev. ed.)

Joel Martinson

Person Name: Joel Martinson, b. 1960 Arranger of "KUORTANE" in With One Voice

William J. Schaefer

1891 - 1976 Person Name: William J. Schaefer, 1891-1976 Translator of "Preserve Your Word, O Savior" in Lutheran Worship

Ole G. Belsheim

1861 - 1925 Person Name: Ole G. Belsheim, 1861-1925 Translator of "God's Word Is Our Great Heritage" in Lutheran Worship Ole G. Belsheim was born on August 26, 1861 in Vang, Valdres, Norway. He emigrated to America with his family when he was just 5 years old. He attended Luther College, Decorah, Iowa; Northfield Seminary; and Augsburg Seminary, Minnesota. He served as pastor in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Albert Lea, Minnesota; Grand Meadow, Minnesota; and Mandan, North Dakota and Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bismarck, North Dakota (1908-15). He was also a member of the committee that produced The Lutheran Hymnary in 1913 and served as editor for Christian Youth for two years. He died on February 13, 1925 in Dickinson, North Dakota. NN, Hymnary. Source: http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/b/e/l/belsheim_og.htmvv

Jacobus Fabricius

1593 - 1654 Person Name: Jacob Fabricius,1593-1654 Author of "Do Not Despair, O Little Flock" in Lutheran Worship Fabricius, Jacob, a chaplain in the army of Gustavus Adolphus, was born in 1593, and died in 1654. There is some doubt as to the authorship of the hymn here credited to him. Some hymnologists have attributed it to Johann Michael Altenburg (1584-1640), a preacher, teacher, and musician of Erfurt, and others attribute it to Gustavus Adolphus. "Fear not, O little flock, the foe." 445 Hymn Writers of the Church, 1911 by Charles Nutter ================= Born: July 19, 1593 - Köslin (Pommern) Died: August 11, 1654 - Stettin The Lutheran theologian, Jakob Fabricius, was a son of a shoemaker. Since 1620 Fabricius was the preacher of the Duke Bogislaw XIV von Pommern. In 1626 he attained a doctorate in theology in Greifswald. In January 1631 the Duke Gustav Adolf appointed Fabricius as his preacher. As a preacher and a priest Fabricius accompanied the King Gustav Adolf on his travels in Germany. After the death of the King in November 16, 1632, in the battle with Lützen, Fabricius stepped again into the service of the Duke of Pommern and became in 1634 Superintendent for Eastern Pomerania. Disputed is the question whether Fabricius or Michael Altenburg were the poet of the song "Verzage nicht, du Häuflein klein!". --www.bach-cantatas.com/