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Chuck Zulker

Author of "In these days of toil and strife"

Emi-Margret Zumpe

Author of "Jesus, who art our Lord divine"

Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg

1760 - 1802 Person Name: J. R. Zumsteeg Composer of "[Jesus ist kommen, Grund ewiger Freude]" in Glockenklänge

1815 - 1882 Person Name: John Zundel, 1815-1882 Composer of "BEECHER" in Psalter Hymnal (Gray) John Zundel; b. 1815, near Stuttgart, Germany; organist in Brooklyn, N. Y., from 1847 to 1878; d. Cannstadt, Germany, 1882 Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908

Petar Žunić

Author of "Hvala Tebi moj nebeski (Thanks and praise to you, O God)" in Global Praise 3

Cleda Zunkel

Author of "He Took a Towel" in The Brethren Songbook

Eliakum Zunser

1836 - 1913 Person Name: E. Zunser Composer of "[Rise on tiptoes, lift your light]" in Union Songster

Chaim Zur

Person Name: Ch. Zur Composer of "[Al sh'loshah d'varim]" in [Shaʻare shirah] = Gates of Song

Zürcherischen Liederbuchanstalt

Publisher of "" in Sammlung Kirchlicher Lieder

Mhanna Zurob

Person Name: مهنا زعرب Author of "يسوع كلمة الإله"

Albert Zutavern

Person Name: Albert Z. Author of "Geburtstagslied" in Sänger-Bote

A. Zvetsin

Author of "aj ja jsem tvuoj Jezu Kriste"

Danuta Zwak-Szurman

Person Name: Danuta Żwak-Szurman Author of "Gdzie dwóch lub trzech" in Śpiewnik Ewangelicki

R. G. Zwall

Author of "Why the Savior came"

F. de Zwart

Author of "In Zion" in Set Free

Ehud Zweig

Person Name: E. Zweig Composer of "[Y'did nefesh av harachaman]" in [Shaʻare shirah] = Gates of Song

Sara Zweig

Person Name: S. Zweig Composer of "[Y'did nefesh av harachaman]" in [Shaʻare shirah] = Gates of Song

Johannes Zwick

1496 - 1542 Person Name: Johannes Zwick, 1496-1542 Author of "Each Morning Brings Us" in With One Voice Zwick, Johann, son of Conrad Zwick, Rathsherr at Constanz, was born at Constanz, circa 1496. He studied law at the Universities of Basel, Freiburg, Paris, and Padua (where he graduated LL.D.), and was for some time a tutor in law at Freiburg and at Basel. In 1518 he entered the priesthood, and in 1522 was appointed parish priest of Riedlingen on the Upper Danube. Being accused of Lutheran tendencies, he was forbidden in 1523 to officiate, and in 1525 his living was formally taken from him. He returned to Constanz, and was appointed by the Council in 1527 as one of the town preachers. Here he laboured unweariedly, caring specially for the children, the poor, and the refugees, till 1542. In Aug. 1542, the people of Bischofszell, in Thurgau, having lost their pastor by the pestilence, besought Constanz to send them a preacher; and Zwick, proceeding there, preached and visited the sick till he himself fell a victim to the pestilence, and died there Oct. 23, 1542 (Koch, ii., 76; Herzog's Real-Encyklopädie, xvii. 578, &c). Zwick was one of the leaders of the Swiss Reformation. He ranks next to Blaurer as the most important of the early hymnwriters of the Reformed Church. His hymns are collected in Wackernagel, iii., Nos. 672-696. The best appeared in the Nüw gsangbüchle von vil schönen Psalmen und geistlichen liedern, published at Zurich, 1536 (2nd edition 1540 is the earliest now extant), of which he was the chief editor, and which was the first hymn-book of the Reformed Church. The only hymn by Zwick which has passed into English is:— Auf diesen Tag so denken wir. Ascension. This probably appeared in the Nüw gsangbüchle, Zürich, 1536; and is certainly in the 2nd ed. of 1540, from which it is quoted In Wackernagel, iii. p. 608, in 5 stanzas of 7 lines, with "Alleluia." It is also in (2) the Strassburg Psalmen und geystliche Lieder, 1537, f. 99b, and in (3) S. Salminger's (J. Aberlin's?) Der gantz Psalter, &c.(Zürich?), 1537, f. 146 [British Museum]. In each case it is entitled "Another hymn on the Ascension of Christ," while in 1540 the first line is given as "Uff disen tag so dencken wir," in 1537 (2) as "Uf disen tag so dencken wir," and in 1537 (3) as "Auff disen tag so dencke wir." It is the finest of Zwick's hymns, and its spirit of joyful faith, its conciseness, and its beauty of form, have kept it in use among the Lutherans as well as among the Reformed. It is No. 153 in the Unverfälschter Liedersegen, 1851. The translations are:— 1. Raise your devotion, mortal tongues. 2. To-day our Lord went up on high. By Miss Winkworth, omitting stanza iii., in her Lyra Germanica 2nd Ser., 1858, p. 46. Repeated in Schaff’s Christ in Song, 1869 and 1870, and the Schaff-Gilman Library of Religious Poetry, 1881. 3. Aloft to heaven, we songs of praise. This is a free translation, in 4 stanzas of 6 lines, by Dr. G. Walker, in his Hymns from German, 1860, p. 30. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Hänsl Zwinger

Person Name: Haensl Zwinger Author of "Welcher viel kämpfen und streiten will"

Ulrich Zwingli

1484 - 1531 Author of "Lord, We Cry to You for Help" in Psalter Hymnal (Gray)

Willi Zwozdesky

b. 1955 Person Name: Willi Zwozdesky, 1955- Arranger of "[We've cleared off the table]" in Singing the Journey

Alberich Zwyssig

1808 - 1854 Person Name: A. Zwissig Composer of "[Trittst im Morgenrot daher]" in Jugendharfe Johann Josef Maria Zwyssig

Henry Zylstra

1909 - 1956 Versifier of "There Where the Judges Gather" in Psalter Hymnal (Gray) Henry Zylstra (b. Platte, SD, 1909; d. Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1956) earned an undergraduate degree at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan; studied German literature at Iowa State University; and received his Ph.D. in comparative literature from Harvard University. From 1943 to 1956 he taught in the English department at Calvin College. His tenure there was interrupted by service in the United States Navy (1943-1945), during which he received the Bronze Star for "unusually meritorious service." He was studying under a Fulbright professorship at the Free University of Amsterdam when he died of a heart attack in 1956. A founder of Reformed Journal, Zylstra was a greatly esteemed teacher and leader at Calvin College and in the Christian Reformed Church. His writings on education and on the relationship between culture and the Christian faith were especially valued; many of his essays were collected posthumously in Testament of Vision (1958). His translations of theological works from Dutch into English were also of a high calibre. From 1951 until his death Zylstra served on the committee that prepared the 1959 Psalter Hymnal. Bert Polman

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