1676–1711

Introduction

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Born: Oc­to­ber 5, 1676, Sor­au, Si­le­sia (now Ża­ry, Po­land).

Died: Oc­to­ber 5, 1711, Hal­le, Ger­ma­ny.

Biography

Richter gra­du­at­ed from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Hal­le, and be­came iden­ti­fied with the ce­le­brat­ed or­phan­age there. He was a stu­dent of me­di­cine, as well as theo­lo­gy.

A Chris­tian phy­si­cian and sci­en­tist, he took his re­li­gion in­to ev­ery­thing that he did. He per­formed ma­ny che­mi­cal ex­pe­ri­ments, for which he pre­pared him­self by spe­cial pray­er, and in­vent­ed ma­ny com­pounds which came in­to ex­ten­sive use un­der the name of the Hal­le me­di­cines.

Among the ho­ly men and gift­ed writ­ers of hymns and oth­er forms of de­vo­tion­al li­te­ra­ture who made fa­mous the ear­li­er school of Ger­man Pie­tists at Hal­le, Rich­ter was one of the most not­ed.

Sources

Lyrics

  1. Die sanfte Be­weg­ung, die lieb­liche Kraft
  2. Es glänz­et der Christ­en in­wen­dig­em Le­ben
  3. Gott den ichals Liebe kenne
    • God! Whom I as Love Have Known
    • O God, Whose At­tri­butes Shine Forth in Turn
  4. Hier legt mom Sinn sich vor dir nied­er
  5. Hüter! wird die Nacht der Sünd­en
  6. Jesu, gib mir deine Fülle
  7. Jesus ist das schönste Licht
  8. Mein Sa­lo­mo dein freund­lich­es Re­gier­en
  9. Meine Ar­muth macht mich schreien
    • Unto Him My Spir­it Cri­eth
  10. O Liebe die den Him­mel hat ze­ris­sen
  11. O wie sel­ig sind die Seel­en
  12. Stilles Lamm und Friede­fürst
    • Holy Lamb and Prince of Peace
    • Thou Lamb of God, Thou Prince of Peace

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