Short Name: | Anna Sophia von Hessen-Darmstadt |
Full Name: | Anna Sophia von Hessen-Darmstadt, 1638-1683 |
Birth Year: | 1638 |
Death Year: | 1683 |
Anna Sophia, daughter of the Landgrave Georg II. of Hesse-Darmstadt, was born at Marburg, Dec. 17, 1638. Carefully educated, especially in Holy Scripture and the Christian Fathers, she was in 1657 elected Pröbstin of the Lutheran Fürsten-Tochter-Stift at Quedlinburg, where she became Abbess 1680, and died Dec, 13, 1683 (Koch, iii. 549-554; Stromberger's preface, &c).
Her hymns, contemplations on the union of the soul with Christ, in the spirit of the Canticles, mostly appeared in her devotional work:—
Der Treue Seelen-Freund Christus Jesus mit nach denklichen Sinn-Gemählden, anmuthigen Lehr-Gedichten und neuen geistreichen Gesangen, abgedruckt und vorgestellet, Jena, 1658. The only one translation into English is Wohl dent der Jesum liebet [Holy Scripture], her best hymn, 1658, Appx. p. 26. The translations are: (l) "How happy they, who know and love," by Dr. G. Walker, 1860, p. 82. (2) "What joy to love the Saviour," in the British Herald, Nov. 1866, p. 363, repeated as No. 433 in Reid's Praise Book, 1872.
[Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Texts by Anna Sophia von Hessen-Darmstadt (14)![]() | As | Authority Languages | Instances |
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Ach, Gnad über alle Gnaden | Anna Sophia von Hessen-Darmstadt (Author) | German | 1 |
Christus, der ist mein Leben | Anna, Gräfin v. Stolberg, 1638-1683 (Author) | German | 1 |
Herre, tal, din tjener hører | Anna Sophia von Hesse-Darmstadt (Author) | Norwegian | 6 |
Jesu, Jesu, du mein Leben, meine Liebe, Kraft | Anna Sophia von Hessen-Darmstadt (Author) | German | 2 |
Mein Freund ist mein und ich bin sein, o wie werd | Anna Sophia von Hessen-Darmstadt (Author) | German | 3 |
O der wundergroßen Gnaden | Anna Sophia von Hesse-Darmstadt (Author) | German | 2 |
O heilge flut, O kräftig Blut | F. A. S. Landgraf zu Hessen (Author) | German | 3 |
O Lord, help me to live | Anna Sophia von Hesse-Darmstadt (Author) | 1 | |
Rede, Herr, und dein Kind höre | Anna Sophia von Hesse-Darmstadt (Author) | German | 5 |
Rede, liebster Jesu, rede | Anna Sophia von Hessen-Darmstadt (Author) | German | 4 |
Speak, O Lord, Thy servant heareth, To Thy word I now give heed | Anna Sophia of Hesse-Darmstadt, 1638-83 (Author) | English | 9 |
Speak, O Savior, I am list'ning | Anna Sophia von Hessen-Darmstadt, 1638-1683 (Author) | 3 | |
The time is short the season nears That I must leave this vale of tears | Anna Sophia von Hesse-Darmstadt (Author) | 1 | |
Wohl dem, der Jesu liebet Und dessen Himmelswort | Anna Sophia von Hesse-Darmstadt (Author) | German | 10 |