Ĝoju vi, Ciona gent'

Translator: Albrecht Kronenberger

Albrecht Kronenberger, born January 21, 1940, in Würzburg, Germany, was one of the three editors of ADORU - Ekumena Diserva Libro. As a youth, lived in Pirmasens and Germersheim; studied philosophy and Catholic theology in Eichstätt (Bavaria), Frankfurt (Hesse), and Speyer, where he was ordained a priest in 1966. After serving as vicar in Frankenthal and Bellheim, he worked from 1969 to 2002 as a Gymnasium (secondary school) teacher of religion in Neustadt an der Weinstraße, where he has remained in his retirement. Not long after learning Esperanto in the late 1980s, he began to be active in teaching Esperanto in his school and in celebrating Esperanto-language masses in connection with Esperanto conventions and in the cathedral of S… Go to person page >

Author: Friedrich Heinrich Ranke

German Protestant theologian. Author of a number of hymns, two of which are still in general use: *Tochter Zion, freue dich, sung to the tune MACCABAEUS *Herbei, o ihr Gläubigen, a translation of "Adeste fideles" He also pubished a translation of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and a two-volume study on the Pentateuch. Go to person page >