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O Jesus Christus, wachs' in mir

Author: Johann Caspar Lavater
Published in 5 hymnals

Author: Johann Caspar Lavater

Lavater, Johann Caspar, son of Johann Heinrich Lavater, physician in Zürich, was born at Zürich, Nov. 15, 1741. He entered the Academic Gymnasium at Zürich in 1758, and in the end of 1759 began his studies in its theological department. After completing his course he was ordained in the spring of 1762, but did not undertake any regular clerical work till April 1769, when he was appointed diaconus of the Orphanage church at Zürich, where he became pastor in 1775. In July 1778 he was appointed diaconus of St. Peter's church, and in Dec. 1786 pastor there. When, during the Revolutionary period, the French laid the Swiss Cantons under contribution, and then in April 1799 deported ten of the principal citizens of Zürich, Lavater felt compel… Go to person page >

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First Line:	O Jesus Christus, wachs' in mir
Author:	Johann Caspar Lavater

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Deutsches Gesangbuch: eine auswahl geistlicher Lieder aus allen Zeiten der Christlichen Kirche für kirchliche und häusliche Gebrauch (Neue, verb. und verm. Aufl) (1893), p.946

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Deutsches Gesang- und Choralbuch #d31

Deutsches Gesangbuch der Bisch. Methodisten-Kirche #d440

Deutsches Gesangbuch #524

Gesangbuch fuer Deutsche Sonntagsschulen #d162

Glaubens-Lieder #d412

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