Wolfgang Christoph Dessler

A good many of Schmolke's best hymns have been translated into English already; we therefore give one from another writer of the so-called "orthodox party," whose hymns are among the most thoughtful and poetical of this period. This is Wolfgang C. Dessler (1660-1722), a pupil of Erasmus Finx of Nuremberg, and head-master of the grammar-school of that city.