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FOUNDLAND NEW
Meter: 7.6.7.6.8.7.6 Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John J. Overholt Tune Sources: the Philharmonia, From Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 12321 76342 32112
FOUNDLAND NEW
Frans Michael Franzén
1772 - 1847 Person Name: Frans Michael Franzen, 1772-1847 Meter: 7.6.7.6.8.7.6 Author of "Thine own, O Loving Saviour" in Hymnal and Order of Service Franzén, Franz Michael, was born at Uleabôrg, Finland, in 1772, and educated at the University of Abo, where he became Librarian and Professor of Literary History. He was subsequently Minister at Kumla, Orebro, Sweden, and then of Santa Clara, in Stockholm. He was consecrated Bishop of Hernosand, in 1841, and died there in 1847. (See Supplement to Longfellow's Poets and Poetry of Europe.) Of his pieces one is in English common use. It begins "Jesum haf i ständigt minne," translated by Mrs. Charles in her Christian Life in Song, 1858, p. 250, as "Jesus in Thy memory keep" (Looking unto Jesus). Usually it begins with stanza ii., "Look to Jesus, till, reviving."
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
Frans Michael Franzén
