Johann Bernhard Basedow

"Johann Bernhard Basedow was born 1724 in Hamburg. He was first a professor of philosophy at Sorø, then from 1761 was at Altona, and finally was the founder and director of the Philanthropinum in Dessau. From 1778 onwards, he lived as a private citizen on his pensions, residing at various times in Dessau, Helmstedt, and Leipzig, but settling at last in Magdeburg, where he died on July 26, 1790. ...To promote his vision of universal Christianity, he published the Allgemeines Christliches Gesangbuch für alle Kirchen und Secten (Altona 1781). It comprised 403 hymns, more than two-thirds of which were his own, if one include the hymns of other authors that he revised." [assisted by Google translate]

--Gottfried Lebrecht Richter, Allgemeines biographisches Lexikon alter und neuer geistlicher Liederdichter (Leipzig: Martini, 1804), p. 17. https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_ZvM6AAAAcAAJ