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Edward White Benson

1829 - 1896 Person Name: E. W. Benson Hymnal Number: 626 Author of "Blessed city, heavenly Salem, Peaceful vision dim described" in The Liturgy and the Offices of Worship and Hymns of the American Province of the Unitas Fratrum, or the Moravian Church Benson, Edward White, D.D., Archbishop of Canterbury, son of Edward White Benson, of York, was born at Birmingham, 14th July, 1829, and educated at King Edward's School in that town, and Trinity Coll., Cambridge. At Birmingham his contemporaries under the head mastership of Dr. Prince Lee, subsequently first Bishop of Manchester, included Dr. Westcott, and Dr. Lightfoot, Bishop of Durham. At Cambridge he took the high position of Sen. Opt. and 1st cl. Classical Tripos, winning also the distinction of Senior Chancellor's Classical Medalist. He subsequently became a Fellow of his College. In 1852 he passed from Cambridge to Rugby as assistant master; in 1859 from Rugby to Wellington College, of which he was Head Master for fourteen years; in 1872 from Wellington College to Lincoln, as Chancellor of the Cathedral; in 1877 from Lincoln to Truro, as the first Bishop of that Diocese; and in 1883 from Truro to Canterbury, as the Primate of All England. In addition to these appointments he was also Prebendary of Lincoln and Chaplain to the Queen. The sterling value of Dr. Benson's work at Wellington College, at Lincoln, and at Truro, is strongly emphasized by his appointment to Canterbury. His literary labors have not been very extensive; but as a contributor to the Dictionary of Christian Biography, and the author of Work, Friendship, Worship (University Sermons at Cambridge), 1871; Boy Life; Sundays in Wellington College, 1874, and Single-heart, 1877, he is well and favorably known. His hymnological work embraces the co-editorship of the 1856 edition of the Rugby School Hymn-book; the editorship of the Wellington College Chapel Hymn Book, 1860, 1863, 1873, the translation of various Latin and Greek hymns, including Angulare Fundamentum; Tristes erant Apostoli; Dies Irae; O Luce Qui mortalibus; Te lucis ante terminum; (q.v.), and a limited number of original hymns. Of the latter the best is the Rogation Hymn, “O throned, O crowned with all renown" (q. v.). --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ====================== Benson, E. W., p. 135, ii. Abp. Benson died suddenly at Hawarden, Oct. 11, 1896. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Joaquin Miller

1837 - 1913 Person Name: J. Miller Hymnal Number: 577 Author of "Jesus makes my heart rejoice" in The Liturgy and the Offices of Worship and Hymns of the American Province of the Unitas Fratrum, or the Moravian Church

John Hartley

1762 - 1811 Hymnal Number: 1409 Author of "Blessed Jesus, we implore thee" in The Liturgy and the Offices of Worship and Hymns of the American Province of the Unitas Fratrum, or the Moravian Church

Edwin H. Nevin

1814 - 1889 Person Name: Edwin Henry Nevin Hymnal Number: 256 Author of "Always with us, always with us, Words of cheer" in The Liturgy and the Offices of Worship and Hymns of the American Province of the Unitas Fratrum, or the Moravian Church Nevin, Edwin Henry, D.D., son of Major David Nevin, was born at Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, May 9, 1814. He graduated in Arts at Jefferson College, 1833; and in Theology at Princeton Seminary, in 1836. He held several pastorates as a Presbyterian Minister from 1836 to 1857; then as a Congregational Minister from 1857 to 1868; and then, after a rest of six years through ill health, as a Minister of the Reformed Church, first at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and then in Philadelphia. Dr. Nevin is the author of several hymns, the more important of which are:— 1. Always with me [us], always with [us] me. Jesus always present. 2. Come up hither, come away. Invitation Heavenward. 3. Happy, Saviour, would I be. Trust. This is given in the Lyra Sacra Americana as "Saviour! happy should I be." This change was made by the editor "with the consent and approbation of the author." 4. 0 heaven, sweet heaven. Heaven. Written and published in 1862 after the death of a beloved son, which made heaven nearer and dearer from the conviction that now a member of his family was one of its inhabitants" (Schaff’s Christ in Song, 1870, p. 539). 5. Live on the field of battle. Duty. Appeared in the Baptist Devotional Hymn Book, 1864. 6. I have read of a world of beauty. Heaven. 7. Mount up on high! as if on eagle's wings. Divine Aspirations. Of these hymns, Nos. 1, 2, 3 appeared in Nason's Congregational Hymn Book, 1857; and all, except No. 5, are in the Lyra Sacra Americana, 1868. [Rev. F.M. Bird, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

B. F. von Promnitz

1711 - 1744 Person Name: Balthazar F. von Promnitz Hymnal Number: 533 Author of "Church of Jesus, sing Praise thy Lord and King" in The Liturgy and the Offices of Worship and Hymns of the American Province of the Unitas Fratrum, or the Moravian Church Promnitz, Balthasar Friedrich, Count von, b. 1711, d. Feb. 2, 1744, at Erbach, Franconia. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Timothy Lamb

1758 - 1829 Hymnal Number: 1409 Author of "Blessed Jesus, we implore thee" in The Liturgy and the Offices of Worship and Hymns of the American Province of the Unitas Fratrum, or the Moravian Church Timothy Lamb was born in Bristol, England in 1758. He joined the Moravian Church in Bristol in 1787. He worked as an accountant. Lamb died in Bristol in 1829. Dave Blum, Moravian Music Foundation

E. W. von Wobeser

1727 - 1788 Hymnal Number: 792 Author of "I see my Savior languish" in The Liturgy and the Offices of Worship and Hymns of the American Province of the Unitas Fratrum, or the Moravian Church Wobeser, Ernst Wilhelm von, b. Nov. 29,1727, at Luckenwalde, Brandenburg. Co-editor of the Brüder Gesang-Buch, 1778. He wrote a German metrical version of the Psalter, d. Dec. 16, 1795, at Herrnhut. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Ludwig Carl, Freiherr von Schrautenbach

1726 - 1783 Person Name: L. von Schrautenbach Hymnal Number: 1167 Author of "O give us that good part" in The Liturgy and the Offices of Worship and Hymns of the American Province of the Unitas Fratrum, or the Moravian Church Schrautenbach, Ludwig Karl, Baron von, b. 1726, d. 1783, on his estate of Lindheim in Wetteravia. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Matthew Gottfried Hehl

1705 - 1787 Hymnal Number: 1034 Author of "Rise, exalt our Head and King" in The Liturgy and the Offices of Worship and Hymns of the American Province of the Unitas Fratrum, or the Moravian Church Hehl, Matthäus Gottfried, was born April 30, 1705, at Ebersbach, near Goppingen, Württemberg, and studied at the University of Tubingen (M.A. 1723). He was assistant clergyman in a village near Tubingen when Zinzendorf visited Tubingen in 1733. Thereafter he became a Moravian, was ordained in 1744 a presbyter, and in 1751 was consecrated in London as coadjutor bishop for America. He arrived at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Dec. 10, 1751, and in Nov., 1756, removed to Lititz. On account of advancing years ho resigned his office in 1781, and died at Lititz, Dec. 4, 1787 (Koch, v. 348-349). His hymns were written during his "stay at Herrnhut, and appeared in the Herrnhut Gesang-Buch 1735, and its Appendices. One has passed into English non-Moravian use, viz.:— Geht, erhbht die Majestat. Supplication. This is No. 1054 in Appendix iii. to the Herrnhut Gesang-Buch, 1735, in 4 stanzas of 10 lines. In the Brüder Gesang-Buch, 1778, it is No. 1069, and in the Historische Nachricht thereto stanzas i., ii. are ascribed to Hehl, and iii., iv. to N. L. von Zinzendorf [Zinzendorf stanzas beginning "Lamm und Haupt, das selbst geglaubt," are included by Knapp in his edition, 1845, of Zinzendorf s Geistliche Lieder, p. 218, and dated 1733]. Translated as:— Rise, exalt the Majesty, in full, by P. H. Molther, as No. 116, in the Moravian Hymn Book, 1742, with an added stanza iii. from "Lamm und Haupt! es sey geglaubt," by N. L. von Zinzendorf [No. 1089 in Appendix iv. to the Herrnhut Gesang-Buch, 1735, in 1 stanza of 10 lines, and by Knapp, 1845, p. 121, dated May 26, 1736]. In the 1789 and later editions of the Moravian Hymn Book (1886, No. 768), it is greatly altered, and begins, "Rise, exalt our Head and King." Included in Montgomery's Christian Psalmist, 1825, and J. A. Latrobe's Collection, 1841. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology

T. C. Porter

Hymnal Number: 531 Author of "Lamb, the once crucified, Lion, by triumph" in The Liturgy and the Offices of Worship and Hymns of the American Province of the Unitas Fratrum, or the Moravian Church