Author: Heinrich Caesar
Cäsar, Heinrich, was born at Greussen in Thuringia, c. 1597, and became diaconus at Labiau, East Prussia, in 1624. He was instituted Feb. 25, 1627, as pastor at Loewenhagen, near Königsberg (Löwenhagen or Leuenhagen), and died there, in his 72nd year, Aug. 11, 1669 (manuscript from Pastor Winkler of Loewenhagen). The hymn:
In dieser Abendstunde, erheb ich. [Evening], appeared with his name in the New Preussisches vollstandiges Gesang-Buch, Königsberg, 1650, p. 650, in 16 stanzas, and J. Crüger's Praxi, 1648, No. 22. Sometimes erroneously ascribed to Conrad Huober, of Strassburg. It is translated as, "In this the evening hour," by H. J. Buckoll, 1842, p. 9. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (…
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