Let Me Find Thee

Behold me here, in grief draw near

Author: Joachim Neander
Published in 3 hymnals

Author: Joachim Neander

Neander, Joachim, was born at Bremen, in 1650, as the eldest child of the marriage of Johann Joachim Neander and Catharina Knipping, which took place on Sept. 18, 1649, the father being then master of the Third Form in the Paedagogium at Bremen. The family name was originally Neumann (Newman) or Niemann, but the grandfather of the poet had assumed the Greek form of the name, i.e. Neander. After passing through the Paedagogium he entered himself as a student at the Gymnasium illustre (Academic Gymnasium) of Bremen in Oct. 1666. German student life in the 17th century was anything but refined, and Neander seems to have been as riotous and as fond of questionable pleasures as most of his fellows. In July 1670, Theodore Under-Eyck came to Breme… Go to person page >

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First Line: Behold me here, in grief draw near
Title: Let Me Find Thee
Original Language: German
Author: Joachim Neander
Meter: Sieh, hier bin ich, Ehrenkönig
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

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