Person Results

Frank Stoldt

Person Name: Frank W. Stoldt, b. 1958 Meter: 7.7.7.7.4 Translator of "Rise, O Sun of Righteousness" in Evangelical Lutheran Worship

1671 - 1736 Person Name: Johann Christian Nehring, 1671 - 1736 Meter: 7.7.7.7.4 Author of "Sun Of Righteousness" in The Hymn Book of the Anglican Church of Canada and the United Church of Canada Nehring, Johann Christian, son of J. C. Nehring, lawyer in Gotha, was born at Gotha, Dec. 29, 1671. He studied at first medicine and afterwards theology at the University of Halle. In 1700 he became rector of the school at Essen, and, in 1703, inspector of the foundation scholars in the Orphanage at Halle. He was then, in 1706, appointed pastor of Neuendorf (or Naundorf) on the Petersberg, near Halle, and in the end of 1715 pastor at Morl, near Halle, on the Bernburg road. He died at Morl, April 29, 1736 (Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, xxiii. 394, &c.) Five hymns by Nehring are in Freylinghausen's Gesang-Buch, 1704. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Jiyu Kennett

1924 - 1996 Person Name: P. Jiyu-Kennett Meter: 7.7.7.7.4 Author of "Kanzeon, Compassionate One" in The Liturgy of the Order of Buddhist Contemplatives Also: Jiyu-Kennett, P. Kennett, P. Jiyu-

J. W. A. Cluett

1834 - 1899 Meter: 7.7.7.7.4 Composer of "PETERKIN"

F. K. March

Meter: 7.7.7.7.4 Composer of "[Day is dying in the west] (March)" Early 20th Century

C. Daniel Crews

Meter: 7.7.7.7.4 Translator of "Sun of Righteousness" in Moravian Book of Worship

Jay Macpherson

b. 1931 Person Name: J Macpherson Meter: 7.7.7.7.4 Translator of "Sun Of Righteousness" in The Hymn Book of the Anglican Church of Canada and the United Church of Canada Macpherson, Jay. (London, England, June 13, 1931-- ). United Church. Carlton University (Ottawa), B.A., 1951; McGill University (Montreal), B.L.S., 1953; University of Toronto, M.A., 1955; Ph.D., 1964. Teacher and professor of English at Victoria College, University of Toronto, 1954-?. Published several acclaimed books of poetry, notably The Boatman and other Poems (Toronto, Oxford, 1957) before deciding to concentrate on her teaching. For The Hymn Book (1971) she was asked to provide new translations of several German hymn, including "Ein' feste Burg" and "Wachet auf." --Hugh D. McKellar, DNAH Archives