Was ist der Mensch, dass du, Herr, sein gedenkest

Author: Carl Julius Asschenfeldt

Aschenfeldt, Christoph Carl Julius, born March 5, 1792, at Kiel. After studyiug at Göttingen he became, in 1819, pastor at Windbergen in Holstein. In 1824 he was appointed dioconus, and in 1829 chief pastor of St. Nicholas's Church in Flensburg; as also, in 1850, Probst of the district of Flensburg, and in 1851 Superintendent of the German-speaking portion of the Duchy, when he resigned the last of these offices in 1854, being appointed oberconsistorialrath. He died at Flensburg, Sept. 1, 185S. His 150 hymns, elegant in form, but marked with some of the eighteenth century coldness, were contributed to various works and appeared in collected forms as:— (1) Feierklänge. Geistliche Lieder und Gebete auf die Sonn-und Festtage, Lübeck, 182… Go to person page >