Christian Ludwig Edeling

Edeling, Christian Ludwig, son of Ludwig Edeling, Superintendent at Löbejun, near Halle, on the Saale, was born at Lobejun, July 31, 1679. After the completion of his theological studies under Spener and Francke, he became, in 1704, tutor to Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf, and in 1706 Rector of the school at Groningen, near Halberstadt. In 1710 he was appointed assistant preacher at Schwanebeck, near Halberstadt, where he became chief preacher in 1723, and Superintendent in 1739, and died there Sept. 18, 1742 (Koch, v. 219-220; Bode, pp. 62-63; mansucript from Oberpfarrer Graue, Löbejun).

His Poetischer Vorrath, now extant at Wernigerode, in manuscripts contains 27 hymns. Of these he contributed 10 to Freylinghausen’s Neues geistreiches Gesang-Buch, 1714, viz., Nos. 68, 71, 227, 373, 522, 572, 594, 651, 695, 710.

Two of these have been translated:--
i. Christen erwarten in allerlei Fallen. Trust in God. 1714, No. 522, in 9 stanzas. Translation by N. L. Frothingham, 1870, p. 236, as "Christians may find in each scene of commotion."
ii. Der Tag bricht an, die Nacht ist bin. Morning. 1714, No. 695, in 12 stanzas The translations are from Bunsen's Versuch, 1833, No. 677, beginning with stanza viii., "Verbinde mich, mein Heil, mit dir." (It is based on "Der Tag bricht an und zeiget sich," in David von Schweinitz's Penta-Decas Fidium Cordialium, Danzig, 1640; reprinted in Mützell, 1858, No. 183, in 21 stanzas of 6 lines, and the Berlin Geistliche Liedersegan, ed. 1863, No. 1090.) The trs. are (l) “My Saviour, make me cleave to Thee," by Miss Cox, 1841, p. 53. (2) "Lift up my soul to Thee, O Lord," by Lady E. Fortescue, 1843 (1847, p. 12).

-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)