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as the oldest child of the royal hunting official Jens
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The hymnal was subject to much criticism, and this criticism was also directed at Boye and her hymns. Many found her hymns to be rather pompous. She accepted the criticism, and declined in 1790 when she was asked to provide hymns for a new hymnal. However, some of her hymns live on, and she became
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She was said to have had "en besynderlig gave til denne hellige poesi" (a peculiar gift for sacred poetry). Birgitte
Cathrine Boye wrote her hymns during a turbulent time in her life: her husband died in 1775, and in 1778 she married again, to the customs inspector and judicial adviser Hans Boye.
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In addition, she also translated hymn no. 661 "Jeg er frelst og dyrekjøpt" ('I am saved and redeemed'; originally "Ich bin getauft auf deinen Namen" 'I Am
Baptized in Thy Name', written in 1735 by the German Pietist poet Johann Jakob Rambach, 1693–1735).
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Jantzen, A. 1888. Birgitte
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with one translated hymn and three pulpit hymns published in both
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Enlightened
Preaching: Balthasar Münter’s Authorship 1772–1793.
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Birgitte
Cathrine Boye also wrote a number of plays, including
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Møller Jensen, Elisabeth, & Eva
Haettner Aurelius. 1993.
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Nordisk kvinnolitteraturhistoria: I Guds namn, 1000-1800
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Psalme-Bog eller En Samling af gamle og nye Psalmer
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852:Emilie Juliane of Barby-MĂĽhlingen
1132:Matthäus Apelles von Löwenstern
396:Lutheran Hymnal with Supplement
220:Salmediktere i våre salmebøker.
119:1985 and 2013 Norwegian hymnals
463:Eyn geystlich Gesangk Buchleyn
356:Evangelical Lutheran Hymn-Book
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1022:Christian FĂĽrchtegott Gellert
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771:Den svenska psalmboken (1819)
764:Den svenska psalmboken (1695)
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372:Evangelical Lutheran Worship
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206:Dansk biografisk Lexikon
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1287:Johann Balthasar Schupp
1242:Gottfried Wilhelm Sacer
1167:Johann Matthäus Meyfart
1122:Ludvig Mathias Lindeman
1017:Fredrik Gabriel Hedberg
647:Landstads kirkesalmebog
428:Service Book and Hymnal
244:Malling, Anders. 1971.
222:Oslo: Aschehoug, p. 47.
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1107:Johann Balthasar König
872:Birgitte Cathrine Boye
832:Albert von Brandenburg
560:Sálmabók Føroya kirkju
471:Praxis pietatis melica
276:Kristen sang og musikk
274:Aanestad, Lars. 1962.
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1267:Johann Hermann Schein
1007:Andreas Hammerschmidt
972:Frans Michael Franzén
847:Johann Sebastian Bach
686:Norsk Salmebok (1985)
447:First Lutheran hymnal
404:Lutheran Service Book
235:Leiden: Brill, p. 48.
231:Roos, Merethe. 2013.
218:Holsvik, Ivar. 1950.
94:1985 Norwegian hymnal
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1262:Heinrich Scheidemann
1192:HallgrĂmur PĂ©tursson
1087:Balthasar Kindermann
827:Johann Georg Albinus
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892:Dieterich Buxtehude
877:Hans Adolph Brorson
700:Norsk salmebok 2013
515:Den Danske Salmebog
388:The Lutheran Hymnal
348:Common Service Book
246:Dansk salmehistorie
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1367:Gottfried Vopelius
1297:Nikolaus Selnecker
1197:Michael Praetorius
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902:Elisabeth Cruciger
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882:Johan Nordahl Brun
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759:(in Swedish, 1553)
756:Een liten Songbook
536:Thomissøn's hymnal
498:In other languages
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62:Ove Høegh-Guldberg
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1072:Justus Jonas
947:Paul Fleming
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1493:1824 deaths
1488:1742 births
1252:Carl Schalk
1222:Johann Rist
1012:Claus Harms
867:Carl Boberg
857:Martin Behm
693:Salmer 1997
679:Salmer 1973
133:2013 hymnal
129:1985 hymnal
111:(1780) and
1472:Categories
912:Simon Dach
808:Hymnodists
591:Virsikirja
158:References
137:Elias Blix
44:Hymnwriter
27:Early life
927:Paul Eber
630:Norwegian
606:Icelandic
474:(1640/47)
109:Melicerte
329:English
33:Gentofte
739:Swedish
715:Spanish
575:Finnish
551:Faroese
331:hymnals
102:Nynorsk
54:Pietism
37:Denmark
751:(1536)
674:(1925)
666:(1924)
658:(1873)
650:(1870)
642:(1869)
506:Danish
490:(1993)
482:(1602)
466:(1524)
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431:(1958)
423:(2006)
415:(1982)
407:(2006)
399:(1989)
391:(1941)
383:(1978)
375:(2006)
367:(1996)
359:(1912)
351:(1917)
343:(1993)
98:BokmĂĄl
21:Danish
50:hymns
131:and
123:The
100:and
60:and
811:and
127:'s
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190:^
166:^
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35:,
314:e
307:t
300:v
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