John Dahle

Born: Jan­u­ary 3, 1853, Øystre Slidre, Opp­land, Nor­way.

Dahle em­i­grat­ed to Amer­i­ca in 1877. He was an or­gan­ist, com­pos­er, song lead­er, mu­sic ed­i­tor, teach­er, and authority on hym­nol­o­gy. Dahle taught at Lu­ther The­o­lo­gi­cal Sem­in­a­ry in St. Paul, Min­ne­sota. From 1924 to 1928 he ed­it­ed a three vol­ume Lib­ra­ry of Chris­tian Hymns, with the his­to­ry of each of the 615 hymns in the Lu­ther­an hym­na­ry.

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