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John Julian

John Julian
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Short Name: John Julian
Full Name: Julian, John, 1839-1913
Birth Year: 1839
Death Year: 1913

Born: Jan­u­a­ry 27, 1839, St. Ag­nes, Corn­wall.
Died: Jan­u­a­ry 22, 1913, Thirsk, York­shire, Eng­land.

Educated pri­vate­ly, Ju­li­an grad­u­at­ed from Dur­ham Un­i­ver­si­ty (MA 1887), Lam­beth (DD 1894), and How­ard Un­i­ver­si­ty in Wash­ing­ton, DC (LLD 1894). He took Ho­ly Or­ders in 1866, and served as Vi­car of Win­co­bank (1876-1905) and Vi­car of Top­cliff, York­shire (1905-). How­ev­er, he is best known as a hymn­ol­o­gist. The stand­ard ref­er­ence work in this field is his ma­ssive Dic­tion­ary of Hym­nol­o­gy: Or­i­gin and His­to­ry of Chris­tian Hymns and Hymn­writ­ers of All Ag­es and Na­tions, To­ge­ther with Bi­o­graph­ic­al and Cri­ti­cal No­tic­es of Their Au­thors and Trans­lat­ors. This work has been re­vised and re­print­ed sev­er­al times; its pub­li­ca­tion dates in­clude:
-- London: J. Murray, 1892
-- London: J. Murray, 1908 (this may be the edi­tion re­vised by James Mearns (1855-1922), Vi­car of Rush­den, Hert­ford­shire)
--Grand Ra­pids, Mi­chi­gan: Kre­gel Pub­li­ca­tions, 1985

His other works in­clude:
Concerning Hymns, 1874
History of the Use of Hymns in Pub­lic Wor­ship, and Their Pro­per Char­ac­ter­is­tics, 1894
Carols, An­cient and Mo­dern, 1900

Julian do­nat­ed his large col­lect­ion of hym­no­lo­gi­cal books and man­u­scripts to the Church House, Dean’s Yard, Lon­don, where it formed the hym­no­lo­gi­cal de­part­ment of the li­bra­ry.

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Texts by John Julian (8)sort descendingAsAuthority LanguagesInstances
Father of all, to Thee, With loving hearts we prayRev. J. Julian (Author)English14
Gracious Spirit, Life divineJohn Julian (Author)English3
Great God, to Thee our hearts we raiseCanon Julian (Author)English3
Hark! the voice eternalG. Julian (Author)English24
Long the nations waitedRev. John Julian (Author)English3
O God of God! O Light of Light!John Julian (Author)English50
Praise we give, and adorationJ. Julian (Author)2
Sweetly sang the Angels in the clear calm nightThe Rev. John Julian (1839- ) (Author)English11

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