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Johann Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis
1762 - 1834 Person Name: J. G. von Salis-Seewis Hymnal Number: d25 Author of "Bunt sind schon die W'lder" in Harmonisches Gesang Buch, Theils von andern Authoren, Theils neu verfasst. Salis-Seewis, Johann Gaudenz, Baron von, was born Dec. 26, 1762, at the castle of Bodmer (Bothmar), near Malans, Grisons, Switzerland. From 1779 to 1792 he was an officer in the French army; and after 1798 he held various offices connected with the Swiss Militia, and with his native canton. He died at Bodmer, Jan. 29, 1834, and was buried at Seewis, near Malans (Allg. Deutsche Biog., xxx., 245, &c). His Poems appeared as his Gedichte at Zurich, 1793; 2nd ed., 1794; 3rd, 1797; 4th, 1800; 4th enlarged ed., 1803; new ed., 1808 [all in Berlin Library], and many later eds. The most famous of his poems is "Das Grab ist tief und stille" (in his Gedichte, 1793, p. 35, entitled "The Grave, 1783"), of which there are at least 7 translations into English. The only one in English common use as a hymn is:—
Ins stille Land! Wer leitet uns hinüber. For the Dying. 1st published in his Gedichte, Neue Auflage, Zürich, 1808, p. 146, in 3 stanzas of 7 lines, each ending "Ins stille Land." In his Gedichte, Cologne, 1815, p. 134. The translation in common use is:—
Into the Silent Land! Ah! who shall lead us thither. In full by H. W. Longfellow in his Voices of the Night, Cambridge, U. S., 1840, p. 141, repeated in the later eds. of his Poetical Works. Included in Hedge and Huntington's Hymnsfor the Church of Christ, 1853, and many later American collections. It has been retranslated into Greek verse by Dr. B. H. Kennedy, in his Between Whiles, 1877. There are at least three other versions in English. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
Johann Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis
Frederick Rapp
1775 - 1834 Hymnal Number: d70 Author of "Freut euch ihr Kinder der Freundschaft" in Harmonisches Gesang Buch, Theils von andern Authoren, Theils neu verfasst.
Frederick Rapp
Heinrich Ebner
Publisher of "" in Harmonisches Gesang Buch, Theils von andern Authoren, Theils neu verfasst.
Heinrich Ebner
K. W. Ramler
Hymnal Number: d42 Author of "Du dessen Augen flossen" in Harmonisches Gesang Buch, Theils von andern Authoren, Theils neu verfasst.
K. W. Ramler
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