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Bleibt, Schäflein, bleibt! Gedenkt an diesen Tag

Author: Ernst Gottlieb Woltersdorf

Woltersdorf: Ernst Gottlieb W., as a hymn writer, preacher, prolific writer and educators in the field of Erbauungslitteratur one of the most outstanding representatives of pietistic healthy heart and mind towards the middle of the 18th Century. He was born on 31 May 1725 as the sixth son of the preacher to Gabriel Luke Friedrichsfelde in Berlin, who was appointed 10 years after its birth as a preacher at the St. George Church in Berlin. The blessing of a serious Christian education accompanied him to the Berlin High School to the gray convent, from which he received in 1742, only 17 years old, the University of Halle, to be under the direction of the pietistic school teachers belonging to J. Lange, Michael, Baumgarten and Knapp to pay the… Go to person page >

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First Line: Bleibt, Schäflein, bleibt! Gedenkt an diesen Tag
Author: Ernst Gottlieb Woltersdorf
Language: German
Copyright: Public Domain

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Die Perle #148

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Kropper Gesang- und Liederbuch #270

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Sonntagsschul-Gesangbuch der Reformirten Kirche in den Vereinigten Staaten #115

Sonntagsschul-Gesangbuch der Reformirten Kirchen in den Vereinigten Staaten #d18

The Selah Song Book (Das Sela Gesangbuch) #d66

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The Selah Song Book (Das Sela Gesangbuch) (2nd ed) #718b

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Unser Liederbuch #154

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