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Anna Hoppe

1889 - 1941 Person Name: Anna Hoppe Meter: 7.7.6.7.7.8 Translator of "O World, See Here Suspended" in American Lutheran Hymnal Anna Hoppe was born on May 7, 1889 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She left school after the eighth grade and worked as a stenographer. She began writing patriotic verses when she was very young and by the age of 25 she was writing spiritual poetry. After some of her poems appeared in the Northwestern Lutheran, a periodical of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, they came to the attention of Dr. Adolf Hult of Augustana Seminary, Rock Island, Illinois. He influenced her to write her Songs for the Church Year (1928). Several hymnals include her work, which was usually set to traditional chorale melodies, although she also made a number of translations. She died on August 2, 1941 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. NN, from Cyber Hymnal

John J. Overholt

1918 - 2000 Person Name: Compiler Meter: 7.7.6.7.7.8 Alterer of "The duteous day now closeth" in The Christian Hymnary. Bks. 1-4 John J. Overholt was born to an Amish family of limited means in the state of Ohio in 1918. As a child he was soon introduced to his father's personal collection of gospel songs and hymns, which was to have a marked influence on his later life. With his twin brother Joe, he early was exposed to the Amish-Mennonite tradition hymn-singing and praising worship. An early career in Christian service led to a two-year period of relief work in the country of Poland following World War II. During that interim he began to gather many European songs and hymns as a personal hobby, not realizing that these selections would become invaluable to The Christian Hymnary which was begun in 1960 and completed twelve years later in 1972, with a compilation of 1000 songs, hymns and chorales. (The largest Menn. hymnal). A second hymnal was begun simultaneously in the German language entitled Erweckungs Lieder Nr.1 which was brought to completion in 1986. This hymnal has a total of 200 selections with a small addendum of English hymns. Mr. Overholt married in 1965 to an accomplished soprano Vera Marie Sommers, who was not to be outdone by her husband's creativity and compiled a hymnal of 156 selections entitled Be Glad and Sing, directed to children and youth and first printed in 1986. During this later career of hymn publishing, Mr. Overholt also found time for Gospel team work throughout Europe. At this writing he is preparing for a 5th consecutive tour which he arranges and guides. The countries visited will be Belgium, Switzerland, France, Germany, Poland, USSR and Romania. Mr. Overholt was called to the Christian ministry in 1957 and resides at Sarasota, Florida where he is co-minister of a Beachy Amish-Mennonite Church. Five children were born to this family and all enjoy worship in song. --Letter from Hannah Joanna Overholt to Mary Louise VanDyke, 10 October 1990, DNAH Archives. Photo enclosed.

M. Owen Lee

b. 1930 Person Name: M. Owen Lee, CSB, b. 1930 Meter: 7.7.6.7.7.8 Translator of "O Food of Exiles Lowly (O Esca Viatórum)" in Worship (4th ed.)

Heinrich Isaac

1450 - 1517 Person Name: Heinrich Isaac, 1450?-1517 Meter: 7.7.6.7.7.8 Composer (melody, attr.) of "O WELT, ICH MUSS DICH LASSEN" in The Hymnal 1982 Heinrich Isaac; b. about 1450, Germany; organist in Florence, Italy; supposed to have died there abour 1517 Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908

Bruce R. Backer

b. 1929 Person Name: Bruce R. Backer Meter: 7.7.6.7.7.8 Composer of "EPIPHANY" in Christian Worship (1993) Bruce R. Backer was a professor at Dr. Martin Luther College, New Ulm, MN and is a well-known composer and organist. He is also a Lutheran liturgiologist and hymnologist. NN

William Henry Hewlett

1873 - 1940 Meter: 7.7.6.7.7.8 Composer of "CARLTON STREET" Born: January 16, 1873, Batheaston, Somerset, England. Died: June 13, 1940, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Buried: Woodlawn Cemetery, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Hewlett studied music as a child with several teachers in England, with A. S. Vogt at the Toronto College of Music, and Signor D’Auria and A. E. Fisher at the Toronto Conservatory. He received the gold medal upon graduating from the Toronto Conservatory, and won the Conservatory’s Blackstock gold medal for extemporization in 1894. Hewlett served as organist at Carlton Street Methodist Church, Toronto; conductor of the London, Ontario, Vocal Society; accompanist of the Mendelssohn Choir of Toronto; organist and choirmaster of Dundas Centre Methodist Church in London; and secretary of the London chapter of the Associated Musicians of Ontario. --www.hymntime.com/tch

David Schubert

b. 1942 Person Name: David Arthur Schubert, 1942-u Meter: 7.7.6.7.7.8 Translator of "See, world, your life suspended" in Together in Song

Hans Adolf Brorson

1694 - 1764 Person Name: H. A. Brorson, 1694-1764 Meter: 7.7.6.7.7.8 Author of "Praise God, This Hour of Sorrow" in Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary

Timothy Dudley-Smith

1926 - 2024 Meter: 7.7.6.7.7.8 Author of "Our God Eternal, Reigning" in Scripture Song Database Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) Educated at Pembroke College and Ridley Hall, Cambridge, Dudley-Smith has served the Church of England since his ordination in 1950. He has occupied a number of church positions, including parish priest in the diocese of Southwark (1953-1962), archdeacon of Norwich (1973-1981), and bishop of Thetford, Norfolk, from 1981 until his retirement in 1992. He also edited a Christian magazine, Crusade, which was founded after Billy Graham's 1955 London crusade. Dudley-Smith began writing comic verse while a student at Cambridge; he did not begin to write hymns until the 1960s. Many of his several hundred hymn texts have been collected in Lift Every Heart: Collected Hymns 1961-1983 (1984), Songs of Deliverance: Thirty-six New Hymns (1988), and A Voice of Singing (1993). The writer of Christian Literature and the Church (1963), Someone Who Beckons (1978), and Praying with the English Hymn Writers (1989), Dudley-Smith has also served on various editorial committees, including the committee that published Psalm Praise (1973). Bert Polman

C. A. Wendell

1866 - 1950 Person Name: Claus August Wendell Meter: 7.7.6.7.7.8 Author (sts. 3-4) of "The Restless Day Now Closeth" in The Hymnal and Order of Service