Samuel Marot

Marot, Samuel, D.D., was born at Magdeburg, Dec. 11,1770, and studied at the University of Frankfurt a. Oder. On July 1, 1798, he was ordained as preacher to the Orphanage (Friedrichs-Waisenhaus) at Berlin. In 1808 he was appointed preacher at the Neue Kirche; in 1816 superintendent of the Reformed Churches in Berlin; and also became Consistorialrath in 1830, and Oberconsistorialrath in 1846 (D.D. from University of Berlin, 1846). He died at Berlin, Oct. 12, 1865 (Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, xx. 404, &c). He was one of the Committee which compiled the Berlin Gesang-Buch, 1829. The only hymn known by him is:—

Vondes Himmels Thron. Confirmation. Contributed to the Berlin Gesang-Buch, 1829, as No. 350, in 5 st. of 61. Its excellence and simplicity have gained it a place in many recent German collections, as the Berlin Geistliche Lieder, &c., ed. 1863, No. 1614. Translated as:—
From Thy heav'nly throne . A good and full translation by Miss Winkworth as No. 91 in her Chorale Book for England, 1863; repeated in the Parish Hymn Book, 1875. [Rev. James Mearns]

-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)