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Karl Heinrich von Bogatzky

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Occupation
  
German hymnwriter

Role
  
Writer

Name
  
Karl von

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Born
  
September 7, 1690
Jankowe, Lower Silesia

Died
  
June 15, 1774, Halle, Germany

Books
  
Golden Treasury of Texts for Every Day in the Year

Karl Heinrich von Bogatzky (Jankowe, Lower Silesia September 7, 1690 – June 15, 1774) was a German hymn writer.

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Life

At first a page at the ducal court of Saxe-Weissenfels, he next studied law and theology at Jena and Halle; but ill health prevented his preferment. He settled at Glaucha in Silesia, now part of Halle, where he founded an orphanage. After living for a time at Kostritz, and from 1740 to 1745 at the court of Christian Ernst, duke of Saxe-Coburg, at Saalfeld, he made his home at the Waisenhaus (orphanage) at Halle, where, until his death, he engaged in spiritual work and in composing hymns and sacred songs.

Works

Bogatzky's main works are Guldenes Schatzkastlein der Kinder Gottes (Little Golden Treasure Chest of God's Children, 1718) and Ubung der Gottseligkeit in allerlei geistlichen Liedern (Exercises Regarding God's Blessedness in All Forms of Religious Songs, 1750).

References

Karl Heinrich von Bogatzky Wikipedia