a German hymn writer, was born at Nuremberg, February 11, 1660, and died while head-master of the grammar-school of his native place, March 11, 1722. Of his many hymns we mention those which have been translated into English, as, Wie wohl ist nir, O Freund der Seele (“O Friend of souls, how well with me,” in Lyra Germanica, 1:147): Mein Jesu, den die Seraphinen (“My Jesus, if the Seraphim,” ibid. 2:78): Ich, lass dich nicht, Du musst mein Jesus bleiben (“I leave thee not, thou art my Jesus ever,” in The Breanking Crucible, by J.W. Alexander): Frisch, frisch hundurch mein Geist (“Courage, my heart, press cheerly on,” in Christian Siingers of Germany, page 277): Oeffne mir die Perlenpforten (“How the pearly gates unfold,” in Lyra Germanica, 2:234). See Koch, Geschichte des deutschen Kirchenliedes, 3:531 sq. (B.P.)<\/p>\n
Dessler, Wolfgang Christoph a German hymn writer, was born at Nuremberg, February 11, 1660, and died while head-master of the grammar-school of his native place, March 11, 1722. Of his many hymns we mention those which have been translated into English, as, Wie wohl ist nir, O Freund der Seele (“O Friend of souls, how … Continue reading “Dessler, Wolfgang Christoph”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}