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Ernst W. Olson
1870 - 1958 Person Name: Ernst W. Olson, 1870 - 1958 Translator, Stanza 3 of "A voice, a heavenly voice I hear!" in Service Book and Hymnal of the Lutheran Church in America Ernst W. Olson (b. Skane, Sweden, 1870; d. Chicago, IL, 1958) prepared the English translation for the 1925 Hymnal of the Lutheran Augustana Synod. As editor, writer, poet, and translator, Olson made a valuable contribution to Swedish-American culture and to church music. His family immigrated to Nebraska when he was five years old, but he spent much of his life in the Chicago area. Educated at Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois, he was editor of several Swedish-American newspapers and spent most of his professional career as an editor for the Augustana Book Concern (1911-1949). Olson wrote History of the Swedes in Illinois (1908). He also contributed four original hymns and twenty-eight translations to The Hymnal (1925) of the Evangelical Lutheran Augustana Synod and served on the committee that produced the Lutheran Service Book and Hymnal (1958).
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Ernst W. Olson
Johan Olof Wallin
1779 - 1839 Person Name: Johan Olof Wallin, 1779- 1839 Author of "A voice, a heavenly voice I hear!" in Service Book and Hymnal of the Lutheran Church in America Johan Olaf Wallin was born at Stora Tuna, in 1779, and early displayed his poetical powers. In 1805, and again in 1809, he gained the chief prize for poetry at Upsala. In the latter year he became pastor at Solna; here his ability as a preacher was so striking that he was transferred to Stockholm, in 1815, as "pastor primarius," a title for which we have no exact equivalent. In 1818 he was made Dean of Westeras, and set about the task of editing a revised hymn-book for the whole of Sweden. This task he completed in 1819, and published it as, Den Swenska Psalmboken, af Konungen gillad och stadfästad (The Swedish hymn-book, approved and confirmed by the King). To it he contributed some 150 hymns of his own, besides translations and recastings; and the book remains now in the form in which he brought it out. It is highly prized by the Swedes, and is in use everywhere.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, p. 1000 (1907)
Johan Olof Wallin
Olof Åhlström
1756 - 1835 Person Name: Olof Ahlstrom, 1756 - 1835 Composer of "ST. JAMES' STOCKHOLM" in Service Book and Hymnal of the Lutheran Church in America Olof Åhlström, born in Stockholm, Sweden, about 1756, died in 1835. He was court pianist and musical instructor of the royal family, and bout 1790 was among the best dramatic composers. With Boman, he edited a collection of Swedish popular airs, "Walda svenska Folkdansar och Folkedar" (Stockholm), some of which were sung by Jenny Lind Goldschmidt, and for two years edited a Swedish musical periodical, "Musikaliskt Tidsfördrif." Works: 4 sonatas for pianoforte (Stockholm, 1783-1786); also operas, cantatas, and songs.
Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians by John Denison Camplin, Jr. and William Foster Apthorp (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1888)
Olof Åhlström
S. M. Hill
Person Name: Samuel Magnus Hill, 1851 - 1921 Translator, Stanza 1 of "A voice, a heavenly voice I hear!" in Service Book and Hymnal of the Lutheran Church in America
S. M. Hill
