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Christian Ignatius LaTrobe

1758 - 1836 Person Name: Rev. Christian Ignatius LaTrobe, 1758-1836 Author of "Lord of life, now sweetly slumber" in Hymnal and Liturgies of the Moravian Church Born: February 12, 1758, Fulneck (near Leeds), Yorkshire, England. Died: May 6, 1836, Liverpool, England. La Trobe, Christian Ignatius, eldest son of Benjamin La Trobe, was born at the Moravian Settlement, Fulneck, Leeds, Yorkshire, Feb. 12, 1758, and educated in England and at the Brethren's College, Niesky, Silesia. Taking orders in the Moravian Church, he became in 1784 Secretary to their Society for the Furtherance of the Gospel, and in 1795 Secretary to the Unity of the Brethren in England. He died at Fairfield, near Liverpool, May 6, 1836. He is best known through his Selection of Sacred Music, in six volumes, which appeared in 1806-25. His hymnological contributions consist of a few translations from the German. [George Arthur Crawford, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Johannes Menninga

1875 - 1939 Person Name: Johannes Menninga, 1875-1939 Author of "Freudig preisen wir, Herr Jesus" in Glaubenslieder

Jérémie Risler

Translator of "T'aimer, Jésus, Te Connaître" in Les Chants du Pèlerin

L. P. Brink

1876 - 1936 Person Name: Leonard P. Brink Translator of "Hours and Days and Years and Ages" in Psalter Hymnal (Gray) Leonard P. Brink (b. East Saugatuck, MI, 1876; d. Pomeroy, IA 1936), a graduate of Calvin Seminary, Grand Rapids, Michigan (1900), spent much of his life as a missionary among the Navajo people. He translated Bible books and hymns into the Navajo language and wrote a catechism for the Navajo people. He also translated Dutch poetry and hymns into English. Bert Polman