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Short Name: William W. Orwig
Full Name: Orwig, William W., 1810-1889.
Birth Year: 1810
Death Year: 1889

Orwig, William. (September 25, 1810--May 29, 1889). Evangelical. Historian, editor, bishop (1859), college president, book agent (1836), promoter of missions. Assisted in making new edition of Das Geistliche Viole, most important hymnbook in German America. Hymns, well-loved, included "Komm Geist vom Thron herab."

--Ellen Jane Lorenz, DNAH Archives


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