Francke, August Hermann, son of Johann Francke, a lawyer in Lubeck, was born at Lubeck, March 22, 1663. He studied at the Universities of Erfurt, Kiel, and Leipzig, graduated M.A. at Leipzig, 1685, and thereafter lectured on Biblical subjects at Leipzig for some time. About Michaelmas, 1687, he went to Lüneburg to work under the pious superintendent C. H. Sandhagen; and there while composing his first sermon (on St. John xx. 31) he underwent that change which made him call Lüneburg his spiritual birthplace. After spending the greater part of 1688 at Hamburg, he stayed two months with P. J. Spener at Dresden, and then returned about Lent, 1689, to Leipzig, where he resumed his Biblical lectures until the old orthodox party procured an edic… Go to person page >
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Display Title: O du wundersel'ge Frühlingszeit!First Line: Wenn der Lenz beginnt, wenn der Schnee zerrinntTune Title: [Wenn der Lenz beginnt, wenn der Schnee zerrinnt]Author: F. Grether; Herm. FrankeDate: 1904
Display Title: Wenn der Lenz beginnt, wenn der Schnee zerrinntFirst Line: Wenn der Lenz beginnt, wenn der Schnee zerrinntTune Title: [Wenn der Lenz beginnt, wenn der Schnee zerrinnt]Date: 1893