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Robert

Person Name: Ruperti, Regis Franciae Hymnal Number: 164 Author of "Komm, heiliger Geist!" in Evangelisch-Lutherisches Gesang-Buch

Joh. M. Lang

Person Name: Dr. Joh. M. Lang, st. 1756 Hymnal Number: 178 Author of "Geist-erfüllte Freunden-Zeit" in Evangelisch-Lutherisches Gesang-Buch

1625 - 1677 Person Name: Johann Heermann Hymnal Number: 296 Author of "O Gott! da ich gar keinen Rath" in Evangelisch-Lutherisches Gesang-Buch Bornschürer, Johannes, born Nov. 5, 1625, at Schmalkalden. After studying at the Universities of Marburg, Jena, Erfurt, and Strassburg he became, in 1650, pastor at Brotterode in Hesse Cassol, 1657 at Steinbach-Hallenberg, 1661 diaconus at Schmalkalden, and in 1670 decan in the town of Tann, where he died Dec. 5, 1677 (Koch, iii. 430; Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, iii. 176). To the hymn-book which he edited for use in Tann, published as Geistliche Lieder zu Ubung christlicher Gottseeligkeit, at Meiningen, 1676, he contributed five hymns, one of which is:— Gott Vater, höre unser Bitt. [Holy Baptism]. This prayer to the Holy Trinity for a blessing on the child, appeared as No. 6 of the Baptismal Hymns in 1676, as above, p. 435, in 4 stanzas of 6 lines. v In the Unverfälschter Liedersegen, 1851, No. 260. The only translation in common use is "O God the Father! hear our prayer," a good and full translation by A. T. Russell, Nos. 154,155, in his Psalms & Hymns, 1851, No. 155 beginning "O Thou most Holy Trinity," being a translation of stanza iv. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Petrus Hagius

Hymnal Number: 86 Author of "Freu dich du werthe Christenheit" in Evangelisch-Lutherisches Gesang-Buch

Johann Major

1564 - 1654 Person Name: Dr. Joh. Major Hymnal Number: 300 Translator of "Zuflucht des armen Sünders in die Wunden Christi" in Evangelisch-Lutherisches Gesang-Buch Major, Johann, son of Johann Gross (Latinised to Major), farmer at Reinstedt, near Orlainünde, in Thuringia, was born at Reinstedt, Dec. 26, 1564. In 1592 he was ordained as diaconus at Weimar, and in 1605 became pastor and superintendent at Jena. In 1611 he was appointed professor at Jena (D.D., July 1612), and died there Jan. 4, 1654. (J. C. Zeumer's Vitae Professorum . . . in Academia Jenensi, 1711, i., p. 117, &c.) His name is associated with the hymn "Ach Gott und Herr," which is noted under Rutilius, M., p. 982, ii. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)