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Friedrich Heinrich Ranke
Friedrich Heinrich Ranke, ca. 1850
Short Name: Friedrich Heinrich Ranke
Full Name: Ranke, Friedrich Heinrich, 1798-1876
Birth Year: 1798
Death Year: 1876

German Protestant theologian. Author of a number of hymns, two of which are still in general use:

*Tochter Zion, freue dich, sung to the tune MACCABAEUS
*Herbei, o ihr Gläubigen, a translation of "Adeste fideles"

He also pubished a translation of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and a two-volume study on the Pentateuch.

Wikipedia Biography

Friedrich Heinrich Ranke (30 November 1798 – 2 September 1876) was a German Protestant theologian. He was the brother of historian Leopold von Ranke (1795–1886) and the father of pediatrician Heinrich von Ranke (1830-1909) and anthropologist Johannes Ranke (1836-1916). He studied theology and philology at the University of Jena, where he was a pupil of Heinrich Luden and Johann Philipp Gabler. He then studied philosophy at the University of Halle (from 1817), afterwards working as a private schoolteacher in Frankfurt an der Oder. In 1826 he was named pastor in the town of Rückersdorf.
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