Short Name: | Jane M. Campbell |
Full Name: | Campbell, Jane M., 1817-1878 |
Birth Year: | 1817 |
Death Year: | 1878 |
Campbell, Jane Montgomery, daughter of the Rev. A. Montgomery Campbell, born in London, 1817, died at Bovey Tracey, Nov. 15, 1878. Miss Campbell contributed in 1861, a number of translations from the German to the Rev. C. S. Bere's Garland of Songs; or, an English Liederkranz, 1862; and also to his Children’s Choral Book, 1869. The best known and most widely used of these translations is a portion of "Im Anfang war's auf Erden," as the harvest hymn, "We plough the fields and scatter.” Miss Campbell also published A Handbook for Singers, Lond., Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, n.d. This small work contains the musical exercises which she taught in her father's parish school.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Texts by Jane M. Campbell (8)![]() | As | Authority Languages | Instances |
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All good gifts around us | Jane M. Campbell (Translator) | English | 3 |
Holy night, peaceful night | Jane M. Campbell (Translator) | English | 6 |
Lo! in the sky appeareth | Jane M. Campbell (Author) | English | 2 |
شكرا لرب فضله | Jane M. Campbell (Author) | Arabic | 1 |
Silent night, holy night, All is dark, save the light | J. M. Campbell (Author) | English | 30 |
Silent night, holy night, All is calm, all is bright | Jane Montgomery Campbell (Translator (Stanza 4, English)) | English | 1 |
Some say it's but a dream to believe that heaven could be | Jane Campbell (Author) | English | 1 |
We plough the fields, and scatter | Jane M. Campbell (Author) | English | 372 |