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Anna Sophia von Hessen-Darmstadt
1638 - 1683 Person Name: Anna Sophia von Hesse-Darmstadt Author of "The time is short the season nears that I must" in Spiritual Songs and Hymns, for Use in All Gospel Services Anna Sophia, daughter of the Landgrave Georg II. of Hesse-Darmstadt, was born at Marburg, Dec. 17, 1638. Carefully educated, especially in Holy Scripture and the Christian Fathers, she was in 1657 elected Pröbstin of the Lutheran Fürsten-Tochter-Stift at Quedlinburg, where she became Abbess 1680, and died Dec, 13, 1683 (Koch, iii. 549-554; Stromberger's preface, &c).
Her hymns, contemplations on the union of the soul with Christ, in the spirit of the Canticles, mostly appeared in her devotional work:—
Der Treue Seelen-Freund Christus Jesus mit nach denklichen Sinn-Gemählden, anmuthigen Lehr-Gedichten und neuen geistreichen Gesangen, abgedruckt und vorgestellet, Jena, 1658. The only one translation into English is Wohl dent der Jesum liebet [Holy Scripture], her best hymn, 1658, Appx. p. 26. The translations are: (l) "How happy they, who know and love," by Dr. G. Walker, 1860, p. 82. (2) "What joy to love the Saviour," in the British Herald, Nov. 1866, p. 363, repeated as No. 433 in Reid's Praise Book, 1872.
[Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Anna Sophia von Hessen-Darmstadt
Anna Ziegler Hess
1834 - 1867 Author of "The time is short the season nears That I must leave this vale of tears" Anna Ziegler Hess was born in Donegal Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. She was a housewife with seven children and she also wrote many poems. Two of her poems, "O Lord, help me to live," "The time is short, the season nears," appeared in the 1874 Brethren of Christ hymnal Collection of Spiritual Hymns.
Dianne Shapiro from PhD dissertation "A Historical Study of The Function of Music Among The Brethren In Christ" by Herbert Royce Saltzman, University of Southern California, 1964
Anna Ziegler Hess
