The righteous perishes are the words with which the 57th chapter of the Book of Isaiah starts.
 In Christianity is associated with the death of Christ, leading to liturgical use of the text at Tenebrae.
 More generally, the text is associated with the death of loved ones and is used at burials.
 The 24th responsory for Holy Week, "Ecce quomodo moritur justus" (See how the just dies), is based on this text.
 As such, and in other versions and translations, the Bible excerpt has been set to music.
Nāradasmṛti is a part of the Dharmaśāstras, an Indian literary tradition that serves as a collection of legal maxims relating to the topic of dharma.
 This text is purely juridical in character in that it focuses solely on procedural and substantive law.
 Known as the "juridical text par excellence," the Nāradasmṛti is the only Dharmaśāstra text to not cover areas such as righteous conduct and penance.
 Its focused nature has made the text highly valued by rulers and their governments, in Indian subcontinent and southeast Asia, likely as an aid of carrying out their dharma of justly ruling the country.
Nationality is a legal relationship between an individual person and a state.
 Nationality affords the state jurisdiction over the person and affords the person the protection of the state.
 What these rights and duties are vary from state to state.
Brazilian nationality law is based on both the principles of "jus soli" and of "jus sanguinis".
 As a general rule, any person born in Brazil acquires Brazilian nationality at birth, irrespective of status of parents.
 Nationality law is regulated by Article 12 of the Brazilian Federal Constitution.
Tzadik/Zadik/Sadiq ] (Hebrew: צדיק‎ ‎ , "righteous one", pl.
 "tzadikim" ] צדיקים "ṣadiqim") is a title in Judaism given to people considered righteous, such as Biblical figures and later spiritual masters.
 The root of the word "ṣadiq", is "ṣ-d-q" (צדק "tzedek"), which means "justice" or "righteousness".
 The feminine term for a righteous person is "tzadeikes/tzaddeket".
On the Death of the Righteous is a composition for choir and orchestra set to the text of John Donne by the American composer Jennifer Higdon.
 The work was commissioned by the Mendelssohn Club in 2009 to celebrate Alan Harler's 20th season as their music director.
 The piece was first performed on March 29, 2009 by the Mendelssohn Club orchestra and choir under the conductor Alan Harler.
John Donne ( ; 22 January 1572 – 31 March 1631) was an English poet and cleric in the Church of England.
Paul Nguyễn Công Anh (1919 — 2008) was a Vietnamese national who has been classed as a Righteous Among the Nations, by Yad Vashem.
 Paul Nguyen was born in Vietnam and immigrated to France, where he attended the University in Nice.
 Here he met a fellow student, Jadwiga Alfabet, a Jewish refugee from Poland and became engaged.
 In the summer of 1942 French police began arresting Jews with foreign nationality, including some of Jadwiga's relatives.
 Paul married Jadwiga on 5 September 1942, in the hope that gaining French citizenship she'd be protected from deportation.
 The couple then moved to Clermont-Ferrand, returning to Nice in 1943 when that city was in Italian control and relatively safe.
 However, in September 1943 the Germans re-occupied Nice and danger of deportation returned.
 From this time Paul Nguyen hid his wife, her uncle and aunt, Jakub and Salome Berliner and their baby son Roland.
 Obtaining false papers in November 1943 he arranged a people smuggler to take Jakub to Switzerland.
 He arranged a second journey with Salome Berliner and her infant.
 Paul and Jadwiga Nguyen had two daughters.
 Yad Vashem recognized Paul as Righteous on 30 April 2007.
 Paul Nguyễn Công Anh is the only Vietnamese person so recognized.
 His decorations included the Knight of the Legion of Honour.
Venezuelan nationality law is based on the principle of Jus soli.
 Any person born in Venezuela acquires Venezuelan citizenship at birth, irrespective of nationality or status of parents.
 Nationality law is regulated by Section 1 of Chapter 2 of the Constitution of Venezuela and by the Nationality and Citizenship Act of 2004 .
Multiple citizenship, also called dual citizenship or multiple nationality or dual nationality, is a person's citizenship status, in which a person is concurrently regarded as a citizen of more than one state under the laws of those states.
 There is no international convention which determines the nationality or citizen status of a person, which is defined exclusively by national laws, which vary and can be inconsistent with each other.
 Multiple citizenship arises because different countries use different, and not necessarily mutually exclusive, criteria for citizenship.
 Colloquial speech refers to people "holding" multiple citizenship but technically each nation makes a claim that this person be considered its national.

Question: What was the nationality of the person who wrote the text of "On the Death of the Righteous"?
Answer: English