Karl Heinrich von Bogatzky ( Jankowe,

Lower Silesia Lower Silesia ( pl, Dolny Śląsk; cz, Dolní Slezsko; german: Niederschlesien; szl, Dolny Ślōnsk; hsb, Delnja Šleska; dsb, Dolna Šlazyńska; Silesian German: ''Niederschläsing''; la, Silesia Inferior) is the northwestern part of the ...

7 September 1690 – 15 June 1774) was a German hymn writer.

Life

At first a page at the ducal court of Saxe-Weissenfels, he next studied law and

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and Halle; but ill health prevented his preferment. He settled at Glaucha in

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, now part of Halle, where he founded an

orphanage An orphanage is a Residential education, residential institution, total institution or group home, devoted to the Childcare, care of orphans and children who, for various reasons, cannot be cared for by their biological families. The parent ...

. After living for a time at Köstritz, 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 ''Güldenes Schatzkästlein der Kinder Gottes'' (Little Golden Treasure Chest of God's Children, 1718) and ''Übung der Gottseligkeit in allerlei geistlichen Liedern'' (Exercises Regarding God's Blessedness in All Forms of Religious Songs, 1750). He also wrote A Golden Treasury for the Children of God in 1746; this was one of the favourite books of

Jane Gardiner Jane Arden Gardiner (1758–1840) was a British schoolmistress and grammarian, and one of the earliest friends of Mary Wollstonecraft. Early life Gardiner was the daughter of John Arden, a scholar and lecturer, who is best known as one of Mary ...

(1758-1840), an English school owner.

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1690 births 1774 deaths German male songwriters German Lutheran hymnwriters People from Lower Silesian Voivodeship {{Germany-writer-stub