There Is Something Inspiring

Author: Vilhelm Gregersen

Andreas Peter Vilhelm Gregersen was a Danish Lutheran Pastor, song poet and composer. He was born in Flensburg, Denmark, on 17 March 1848, and died on 16 January 1929 in Gjerrild. His father was Laurits Eduard Gregersen, a grocery store owner and a manufacturer, and his mother was Anna Laura Helene Schmidt (Gregersen). In 1864 the family moved to Copenhagen. Gregersen enrolled at Sorø Academy, where he studied, receiving his baccalaureate in 1868. For a time he then worked as office paid staff in his father’s business and in 1874-75 he worked as a tutor in Horsens, after which he began theological study. Gregersen was theological candidate in 1881 and in the same year was ordained and installed as a Pastor of Our Savior's Church in C… Go to person page >

Translator: S. D. Rodholm

Rodholm served as president of the Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (1922-26), president of Grand View College, and professor and dean of the AELC Seminary. NN, Hymnary Go to person page >