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German Roman Catholic hymnwriters

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The list German Roman Catholic hymnwriters includes Diethard Zils, Peter Janssens, David Gregor Corner, Friedrich Dörr and Heinrich Bone. The list consists of 14 members.
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    Overview: Peter Janssens (17 June 1934 – 24 December 1998) was a German musician and composer who wrote and performed incidental music for several theatres, and songs and musicals of the genre Neues Geistliches ...
    Date of birth: 17 June 1934
    Date of death: 24 December 1998
    Age: 64 (age at death)
    Occupation: Composer
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    20th-century German composers 531T
    Folkwang University of the Arts faculty 33T
    Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln alumni 85T
  • 2.

    Guido Maria Dreves
    German Jesuit, hymnologist and poet
    Overview: Guido Maria Dreves (27 October 1854 – 1 June 1909) was a German Jesuit, hymnologist and hymnwriter. He was the son of the notary and poet Lebrecht Blücher Dreves.
    Date of birth: 27 October 1854
    Date of death: 1 June 1909
    Age: 54 (age at death)
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    Overview: Friedrich Dörr (7 March 1908 – 13 May 1993) was a German Catholic priest and professor of theology, who is known as a hymnwriter. He shaped the first common German Catholic hymnal, Gotteslob ...
    Date of birth: 7 March 1908
    Date of death: 13 May 1993
    Age: 85 (age at death)
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    Franz Seraph von Kohlbrenner
    Overview: Johann Franz Seraph von Kohlbrenner (17 October 1728 – 6 June 1783) was a German polymath, promoting the Enlightenment in Bavaria. While working as a civil servant for the Bavarian court, he published ...
    Date of birth: 17 October 1728
    Date of death: 6 June 1783
    Age: 54 (age at death)
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    Joseph Hermann Mohr
    Overview: Joseph Hermann Mohr (10 January 1834 – 7 February 1892) was a German Catholic priest, a Jesuit, hymn writer, and hymnologist. He was a member of the Society of Jesus. When all its institutions were closed ...
    Date of birth: 10 January 1834
    Age: 191
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    Maria Luise Thurmair
    German writer (1912–2005)
    Overview: Maria Luise Thurmair née Mumelter (27 September 1912 – 24 October 2005) was a German Catholic theologian, hymnodist and writer. She contributed the lyrics of many hymns when the Catholic hymnal Gotteslob ...
    Date of birth: 27 September 1912
    Date of death: 24 October 2005
    Age: 93 (age at death)
    Nationality: German
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Female
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    Diethard Zils
    German Catholic priest hymnodist (b. 1935)
    Overview: Diethard Zils O.P. (born 1935) is a German Dominican, priest and hymnwriter.
    Date of birth: 1935
    Age: 89
    Nationality: German
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    20th-century German translators 66T
    German male non-fiction writers 2,538T
    20th-century German non-fiction writers 83T
  • 8.

    Georg Thurmair
    German poet, writer, journalist and author of documentary films
    Overview: Georg Thurmair (7 February 1909 – 20 January 1984) was a German poet who wrote around 300 hymns, a writer, journalist and author of documentary films.
    Date of birth: 7 February 1909
    Date of death: 20 January 1984
    Age: 74 (age at death)
    Occupation: Poet
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    David Gregor Corner
    German abbot, hymn writer and theologian
    Overview: David Gregor Corner, (1585 – 9 January 1648) was a German Benedictine abbot, hymn writer and theologian best known for his influential 1631 Gross Catholisches Gesängbuch ("Great Catholic Hymnal"). Born ...
    Date of birth: 1585
    Date of death: 1648
    Age: 62 (age at death)
    Nationality: German
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    17th-century German male writers 103T
    German male non-fiction writers 2,538T
    17th-century male writers 1,224T
  • 10.

    Luise Hensel
    German poet
    Luise Hensel
    Overview: Luise Hensel (30 March 1798 to 18 December 1876) was a German teacher and religious poet, who influenced the romantic style of her friend and fellow poet, Clemens Brentano.
    Date of birth: 1798
    Date of death: 1876
    Age: 77 (age at death)
    Nationality: German
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Female
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    Cordula Wöhler
    German writer
    Cordula Wöhler
    Overview: Cordula Wöhler, later Cordula Schmid, pseudonym Cordula Peregrina (17 June 1845 – 6 February 1916) was a German author of Christian literature and hymns, whose "Segne du, Maria" is among the most popular ...
    Date of birth: 17 June 1845
    Date of death: 6 February 1916
    Age: 70 (age at death)
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    People from Schwaz 19T
    Converts to Roman Catholicism from Lutheranism 157T
    1845 births 2,161T
  • 12.

    Heinrich Bone
    German educator and hymnwriter
    Heinrich Bone
    Overview: Heinrich Bone (25 September 1813 – 10 June 1893) was a German educator and hymnwriter. He wrote a reader for German studies which was used for higher education in Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and ...
    Date of birth: 25 September 1813
    Date of death: 10 June 1893
    Age: 79 (age at death)
    Occupation: Educator
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    Rabanus Maurus
    archbishop of Mainz and writer (d. 856)
    Rabanus Maurus
    Overview: Rabanus Maurus Magnentius (c. 780 – 4 February 856), also known as Hrabanus or Rhabanus, was a Frankish Benedictine monk, theologian, poet, encyclopedist and military writer who became archbishop of Mainz ...
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    Johannes Leisentritt
    Catholic dean
    Johannes Leisentritt
    Overview: Johannes Leisentritt, also Johann Leisentrit (May 1527 – 24 November 1586) was a Catholic priest, dean of St. Peter in Bautzen and administrator of the Diocese of Meißen, responsible for Lusatia. He is ...
    Date of birth: May 1527
    Date of death: 24 November 1586
    Age: 59 (age at death)
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