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KARL HEINRICH VON See also:BOGATZKY (1690-1774) , See also:German hymn-writer, was See also:born at Jankowe in See also:Lower See also:Silesia on the 7th of See also:September 169o . At first a See also:page at the ducal See also:court of See also:Saxe-See also:Weissenfels, he next studied See also:law and See also:theology at See also:Jena and See also:Halle; but See also:ill-See also:health preventing his preferment he settled at Glancha in Silesia, where he founded an orphanage . After living for a See also:time at Kostritz, and from 1740 to 1745 at the court of See also:Christian See also:Ernst, See also:duke of Saxe-See also:Coburg, at See also:Saalfeld, he made his See also:home at the Waisenhaus (orphanage) at Halle, where he engaged in spiritual See also:work and in composing See also:hymns and sacred songs, until his See also:death on the 15th of See also:June 1774 . See also:Bogatzky's See also:chief See also:works are Guldenes Schatzkdstlein der Kinder Gottes (1718), which has reached more than sixty See also:editions; and Ubung der Gottseligkeit in allerlei geistlichen Liedern (1750) . See Bogatzky's autobiography—Lebenslauf von ihm selbst geschrieben (Halle, 18oi ; new ed., See also:Berlin, 1872) ; and Ledderhose, Das Leben Bogatzky's (See also:Heidelberg, 1846) ; also See also:Kelly, C . H. von Bogatzky's See also:Life and Work (See also:London, 1889) . |
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