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Herr, hier stehet unser Hirt

Author: S. C. Küster Appears in 21 hymnals Used With Tune: [Herr, hier stehet unser Hirt]

[Herr, hier stehet unser Hirt]

Appears in 267 hymnals Incipit: 31253 12176 12321 Used With Text: Herr, hier stehet unser Hirt

[Herr, hier stehet unser Hirt]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. M. Biermann Incipit: 33312 32335 43432 Used With Text: Herr, hier stehet unser Hirt

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Herr, hier stehet unser Hirt

Author: Sam. Chr. G. Küster Hymnal: Die Glaubensharfe (With Melodies) #576 (1886) Languages: German Tune Title: [Herr, hier stehet unser Hirt]

Herr, hier stehet unser Hirt

Author: S. C. Küster Hymnal: Gesangbuch mit Noten #169 (1890) Languages: German Tune Title: [Herr, hier stehet unser Hirt]

Herr, hier stehet unser Hirt

Author: S. C. Küster Hymnal: Gesangbuch mit Noten #169 (1893) Languages: German Tune Title: [Herr, hier stehet unser Hirt]

1625 - 1673 Person Name: Rud. Ahle Composer of "[Herr, hier stehet unser Hirt]" in Gesangbuch der Evangelischen Gemeinschaft Johann Rudolph Ahle, b. Mühlhausen, 1625; Ahle studied theology at Erfurt University. Little is known about his musical education, but be became well known as an organist while he was in Erfurt. He returned to Mühlhausen and became an organist at St. Blasius Church, he composed organ music but is know for his sacred choral music. He was the father of Johann Georg, who was also a composer and succeeded his father as organist at St. Blasius Church. Johann Rudolf became mayor of Mühlhausen late in his life and died there in 1673. Dianne Shapiro (from Bach Cantatas Website www.bach-cantatas.com/Lib/Ahle-Johann-Rudolf.htm)

Samuel Christian Gottfried Küster

1762 - 1838 Person Name: S. C. Küster Author of "Herr, hier stehet unser Hirt" in Gesangbuch mit Noten Küster, Samuel Christian Gottfried, son of S. C. K. Küster, inspector and chief pastor at Havelberg, Brandenburg, was born at Havelberg, Aug. 18, 1762. After studying at the University of Berlin (D.D. 1835) he became third pastor of the Friedrich-Werder Church at Berlin, in 1786; in 1793 second pastor; and in 1797 chief pastor and superintendent, on the death of his father (who had been called to this church in 1771). He died at Eberswalde (Neustadt-E.), near Berlin, Aug. 22, 1838 ( Allg. Deutsche Biographie, xvi. 439, &c: He was one of the editors of the Berlin Gesang-Buch , 1829, and contributed to it two hymns, Nos. 294 and 549; and in 1831 published a small volume of Kurze lebensgeschichtliche Nachrichten regarding the authors of the hymns therein contained. One of Küster's hymns has passed into English, viz:— 0 Jesu, Freund der Seelen. Love to Christ, 1829, as above, No. 549, in 6 stanzas of 8 lines. Suggested by the "Schatz über alle Schatze" [see Liscovius]. Translated as:— 0 Jesus, Friend unfailing. A good and full translation by Miss Burlingham, written June 13,1865, and first published in the British Herald, July, 1865, p. 100. Repeated in full in Reid's Praise Book, 1872; W. F. Stevenson's Hymns for Church & Home, 1873; Dale's English Hymn Book, 1875, and others; and abridged in Newman Hall's Christ Church Hymnal, 1876; Baptist Hymnal, 1879; Supplement of 1880 to Baptist Psalms & Hymns, 1858, &c. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)