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Anders C. Rutström
1721 - 1772 Person Name: Anders Carl Rutström, 1721-1772 Composer of "RUTSTRÖM" in The Covenant Hymnal Also Andreas Rutström. Rutström, Anders Carl. (Rutvik, Sweden, November 30, 1721--October 27, 1772). Lutheran. University of Uppsala. Ordained 1745. University of Griefswald, Th.D. 1756. Pastorates at Storkyrkan (cathedral church), Stockholm (assistant curate) 1745-1756; Hedvig Eleanora Church, Stockholm, 1758-1765. Arrested for his Calvinistic and Herrnhut tendencies. Died in prison. Wrote many hymn texts which were published after his death by his friends as Sions Nya Sånger, 1778. This collection was widely used among the pietists for almost a century. Author of "Lammets folk och Sions fränder" (Chosen Seed and Zion's Children) and "Kom huldaste förbarmare" (O Savior, Thou Who for Us Died).
--J. Irving Erickson, DNAH Archives
Anders C. Rutström
C. W. Foss
1855 - 1935 Person Name: Claude W. Foss Translator (from Swedish) of "My Crucified Savior" in The Cyber Hymnal Born: August 28, 1855, Geneva, Illinois.
Died: February 8, 1935, Rock Island, Illinois.
Son of Swedish immigrants, Foss attended the Red Wing College institute at Red Wing, Minnesota, then entered Augustana College at Rock Island, Illinois, in 1879. He graduated with his bachelor’s degree in June 1883. In 1884, he became professor of history and political science at Augustana College. In 1888 he became vice-president of the college, and served until 1900. On the death of Dr. T. N. Hasselquist he was acting president until the election of Dr. Olof Olsson as president in 1891. Upon Olsson’s death, Foss again served as acting president until Dr. Gustav Andreen became president.
In addition to his academic positions, Foss was on the board of directors of the Augustana Book Concern, the Board of Home Missions for the Augustana Synod, and was treasurer of the Synod’s Board of Foreign Missions. In 1908, the General Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in North America sent him as a commissioner to inspect its mission field in southern India, where he traveled extensively (1908-09). Upon completing his work in India, he inspected the Synod’s mission in Persia in 1909, and traveled in Egypt, the Holy Land, Asia Minor, southern Russia, and south and central Europe.
Foss also found time to edit the Lutheran Quarterly Review, the Augustana Journal, and the Olive Leaf, and contributed to various other magazines and periodicals. His largest literary work was Glimpses of Three Continents, a travelogue through India, the Bible lands and Europe (Augustana Book Concern, 1912).
Foss belonged to the American Institute of Civics, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the American Historical Association, and the Swedish Historical Society of America. He was a member of the Grace Lutheran Church in Rock Island, Illinois.
--www.hymntime.com/tch/
C. W. Foss
Fredrika Eleonora Falck
1719 - 1749 Person Name: Fredrika E. Falck, 1719-1749 Author of "My Crucified Savior" in The Cyber Hymnal Fredrika Eleonora Falck, born Nieroth 1719 and died at age 30 in 1749. Her maiden name is an Estonian aristocratic name, originating from Germany. His father, R. Nieroth, was Major at Nyland Regiment. The family was ennobled later in Sweden too and got friherrelig dignity in 1818 and introduced to the House of Nobility in 1820, almost exactly 70 years after Fredrika Eleonora's death. The noble line, however, died out already in 1883. Her given name was Fredrika.
Author categorized as Moravian, which is clear from the text of the hymn text My Bloody King on the cross the tree . Married at age 24, in 1743, with the Pastor Jonas Falck in Vallerstads parish in the Diocese of Linköping. The hymn of the Swedish Covenant songbook 1894 with no 73 and in Swedish Covenant Songbook 1920 (SME 1920) with a hymn (No. 121).
Week 7 in 2005 became the hymn chosen as "This Week's Hymn" on the website fullbordat.nu. The text is then said to be authored by Frederica E. Nieroth-Falck in 1767, which probably means it was not until 18 years after her death, as the hymn was published in print. The text is said there also have been processed in 1985.
Hymns:
"My Bloody King on the cross of the tree" (SMF 1920 No 121, Pastoral Voice/ 1892 No 476).
--sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Fredrika Eleonora Falck
James Nicholson
1828 - 1896 Person Name: James Nicholson, c.1828-1896 Author of "Lord Jesus, I Long to Be Perfectly Whole" in The Covenant Hymnal James L Nicholson United Kingdom/USA 1828-1876. Born in Ireland, he emigrated to the United States around age 25. He lived in Philadelphia, PA, worked as a postal clerk, and was a member of the Wharton Street Methodist Episcopal Church there for about 20 years, where he taught Sunday school, led singing in church, and assisted in evangelical work. This was also hymn writer, William J Kirkpatrick’s, church. Around 1871 he moved to Washington, DC, and worked as a postal clerk there. In addition to his hymn writing, he also wrote several books, one on birds and their care, one on forensic medicine. He died in Washington, DC, but was buried in Philadelphia, PA.
John Perry
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Nicholson, James, an American Methodist minister, is the author of (1) "Dear [Lord] Jesus I long to be perfectly whole" (Holiness desired); and (2) "There's a beautiful land on high " (Heaven), both of which are in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, 1878.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
James Nicholson
