# Schwenkfelder Hymnology

AMERICANA GERMANICA
New Series
monographs devoted to the comparative study of the
Literary, Linguistic and Other Cultural Relations
OF
Germany and America
EDITOR
MARION DEXTER LEARNED
University of Pennsylvania
Title Page of the First Schwenkfelder Hymn-Book Printed in America.
AMERICANA GERMANICA
SCHWENKFELDER HYMNOLOGY
AND
The Sources
OF THE
First Schwenkfelder Hymn-Book Printed in America
Allen Anders Seipt, A.M., Ph.D.
Member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania Formerly Instructor in German, Ohio Wesleyan University
AMERICANA GERMANICA PRESS
PHILADELPHIA 1909
THESIS
PRESENTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF
THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA IN PARTIAL
FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS
FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR
OF PHILOSOPHY, 1906
BY
ALLEN ANDERS SEIPT
TO
MY MOTHER
IN
GRATEFUL VENERATION
PREFACE.
This work is a contribution to a better knowledge of the activity of the Schwenkf elders in the writing and compiling of hymns, both in Europe and also in America. It is hoped that it will help to rescue from obscurity some of the worthy pioneers whose services in this field have long waited for acknowledgment. To students of the life of the German settlers in America, during the colonial period, it should prove a welcome side-light.
An altogether satisfactory explanation of both the character and the quantity of the religious poetry written by the early Schwenkfelders is furnished by Koch. It runs thus: "They were wholly devoted to a deep susceptibility of the grace of God,intent upon this, in order that they might the better in faith apprehend the inner working of grace. With such spiritual sensibility, and being perpetually the victims of oppression, they had so much the greater occasion for communion with God and for the pouring out of their hearts before Him in prayer and song. Hence it was, that a distinct Schwenkfeldian type of religious poetry developed, quite extensive and not to be undervalued in its importance."
Public acknowledgment is due the following for having rendered assistance during the preparation of this work: Marion D. Learned, Ph. D., L. H. D., Professor of German at the University of Pennsylvania, for directing the author's research; Prof. D. B. Shumway, Ph. D., of the University of Pennsylvania; Hon. S. W. Pennypacker, LL. D., Former Governor of Pennsylvania, for the use of important sources; M. G. Brumbaugh, Ph. D., LL. D., Superintendent of Schools, Philadelphia; Prof. Morris Jastrow, Jr., Ph. D.; Dr. John W. Jordan, Librarian, and Mr. Ernest Spofford, Assistant Librarian, of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; Mr. Thomas L. Montgomery, Librarian, Mr. Norman D. Gray, Assistant Librarian, and Mr. Luther Kelker, Archivist, of the State Library, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; C. S. ​Thayer, Ph. D., Librarian of Hartford Theological Seminary, Hartford, Connecticut; Mr. George Maurice Abbot, Librarian of the Library Company of Philadelphia, and Mr. B. Samuel, of the Ridgway Branch; Pres. Robert Ellis Thompson, D. D., Central High School, Philadelphia; Rev. J. H. Dubbs, D. D., LL. D., Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Rev. C. D. Hartranft, D. D., Wolfenbiittel, Germany; Hon. C. Heydrick, Franklin, Pennsylvania; Howard Wiegner Kriebel, Lititz, Pennsylvania; Rev. O. S. Kriebel, D. D., Pennsburg, Pennsylvania; Rev. E. E. S. Johnson, Wolfenbuettel, Germany; Mrs. Susanna Krauss Heebner, Worcester, Pennsylvania; Samuel A. Anders, Professor of German, Temple University, Philadelphia; and Irene Schumo Seipt, of Philadelphia.
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