Reginald Heber
Reginald Heber (born April 21, 1783 in Malpas , Cheshire ; died April 3, 1826 in Trichinopoly (now Tiruchirappalli)) was an Anglican clergyman and bishop of the Church of England , missionary and man of letters, who today mainly worked as a hymn poet and innovator of the English hymn is remembered.
Life
Heber became pastor in Hodnet , Shropshire , England, in 1807 , and later Bishop of Calcutta (1823-1826), a diocese that is now part of the Church of North India . He spent his tenure touring the Anglican parishes across the subcontinent. He died after living in India for less than three years.
A collection of his hymns was published shortly after his death. One of them, Holy, Holy, Holy , which he wrote as a pastor of Hodnet, is a popular and well-known song of the Trinity - Sunday . Nine of his hymns are in The Church Hymn Book (1872), Holy, Holy, Holy being the first.
His best known song is the mission song From Greenland's icy mountains (Von Greenland's icy tines) .
A famous monument is by Francis Chantrey , now in St Paul's Cathedral in Calcutta .
Publications (selection)
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Narrative of a Journey through the Upper Provinces of India from Calcutta to Bombay 1824-1825 with Notes upon Ceylon: An Account of a Journey to Madras and the Southern Provinces 1826 and Letters written in India. Third Edition in Three Volumes, re-printed by Asian Educational Services, New Delhi, Madras, 1995.
- Journey through the upper provinces of the Indian suburbs from Calcutta to Bombay in the years 1824 and 1825: together with news about Ceylon and a journey made in 1826 to Madras and the southern provinces . In the publishing house of the Landes-Industrie Comptoirs, Weimar, 1831-1832 ( digitized version )
- Sermons Preached in India. Published by John Murray, London, 1829
- Jeremy Taylor (Ed.): The whole works. With a life of the author and A critical examination of his writings. 15 volumes. London Rivington Cadell Longmann etc., 1828
- Reginald Heber's life and news on India, along with an outline of the history of Christianity in India. Edited by Friedrich Krohn. 2 volumes (complete). With the bishop's portrait - frontispiece. Volume 1: Until Heber's stay in Benares. Volume 2: Until Heber's death in Tritschinoploy. Ferd. Dümmler, Berlin 1831 ( digitized version )
- Palestine, and other poems. Philadelphia 1828 ( digitized version )
literature
- Arthur Montefiore: Reginald Heber, Bishop of Calcutta . Fleming H. Revell Company, New York, Chicago and Toronto 1902, OCLC 155604573 . Re-printed 2015 by Facsimile Publisher and distributed by Gyan Books, New Delhi.
- George Smith: Bishop Heber: Poet and Chief Missionary to the East Second Lord Bishop of Calcutta 1783–1826. London: John Murray 1895 ( digitized )
- John Rutherford: Missionary Pioneers in India. Edinburgh 1896, Elliot. - Digitized ( Bartholomew Ziegenbalg , Christian Frederick Schwartz , Henry Martyn , William Carey , Reginald Heber.)
- JR Watson: An Annotated Anthology of Hymns . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2002, ISBN 978-0-19-826973-1 .
See also
- Diocese of Calcutta of the Church of North India (English)
- St Giles' Church, Wrexham (English)
- St. John's Church, Kolkata (English)
References and footnotes
- ↑ sound sample ; Holy, holy, holy (German translation)
- ↑ online ( grades )
- ↑ hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com - In German adaption in: Christian poems by Christian Gottlob Barth , Stuttgart 1836, p. 65 f. ( Partial online view ) - sound sample ( piano accompaniment )
- ↑ victorianweb.org
Web links
- Reginald Heber
- Works in the Internet Archive
- "MISSIONARY HYMN" Played On 1905 MIRA 18 1/2 Inch Concert Grand Console Music Box
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heber, Reginald |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English Church of England Anglican theologian, traveler, and man of letters |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 21, 1783 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Malpas , Cheshire |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 3, 1826 |
| Place of death | Trichinopoly (today Tiruchirappalli) |