Ack! vi äro alla Adams barn, O Gud!

Ack! vi äro alla Adams barn, O Gud!

Author: Frans Mikael Franzen
Tune: LAUS TIBI, CHRISTE (German)
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Author: Frans Mikael Franzen

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)  Go to person page >

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First Line: Ack! vi äro alla Adams barn, O Gud!
Author: Frans Mikael Franzen
Language: Swedish
Copyright: Public Domain

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Svenska Psalm-Boken af År 1819 #44

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