Bohemian Brethren

Heading represents the religious group prior to its discontinuation (ca. 1670, the death date of its last bishop, Comenius); for the resurrected group of ca. 1727 and later, heading is: Moravian Church. Some names (e.g. Unitas Fratrum, Jednota bratrská) denote either.

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Bohemian Hymnody, p. 153. Strictly speaking, the running title of this article should have been Bohemian Brethren's Hymnody, as there was no intention of including the Mediaeval Latin hymns of Bohemia therein. These hymns have been collected by Dreves, especially in vol. i., entitled Cantiones Bohemicae (see p. 661, i.).

The German hymns of the Bohemian Brethren are annotated by R. Wolkan in his Das Deutsche Kirchenlied der Böhmischen Brüder im XVI. Jahrhunderte, Prag, 1891, pp. 105-178 containing the German first lines, with the Bohemian sources, and details of the extent to which they passed into non-Bohemian German collections; and the same writer has an article, dealing also with the Bohemian hymns, in the Herzog-Hauck Realencyklopädie, x., 1901, pp. 426-431. There is a short English notice in the Moravian Almanack for 1905, pp. 118-120.

[Rev. James Mearns, M.A..]

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)