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Karl Heinrich von Bogatzky
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or KARL HEINRICH VON BOGATZKY (1690-1774), German hymn-writer, was born at Jankowe in Lower Silesia on the 7th of September 1690. At first a page at the ducal court of SaxeWeissenfels, he next studied law and theology at Jena and Halle; but ill-health preventing his preferment he settled at Glancha in Silesia, where he founded an orphanage. After living for a time at K6stritz, 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 he engaged in spiritual work and in composing hymns and sacred songs, until his death on the 15th of June 1774. Bogatzky's chief works are Giildenes Schatzkeistlein der Kinder Gottes (1718), which has reached more than sixty editions; and ( )bung der Gottseligkeit in allerlei geistlichen Liedern (1750) .
See Bogatzky's autobiography - Lebenslauf von ihm selbst geschrieben (Halle, 1801; new ed., Berlin, 1872); and Ledderhose, Das Leben Bogatzky's (Heidelberg, 1846); also Kelly, C. H. von Bogatzky's Life and Work (London, 1889).
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Karl Heinrich von Bogatzky'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/k/karl-heinrich-von-bogatzky.html. 1910.
