Den svenska psalmboken (1819)
1819 Church of Sweden hymnal
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Den svenska psalmboken – av Konungen gillad och stadfäst(ad) år 1819 ('The Swedish hymnal – approved and confirmed by the king in 1819'), also called the 1819 Hymnal and the Wallin Hymnal , was used in Sweden from 1819 to 1937 (with Haeffner's chorale book [ sv ] ) and contained 500 hymns. [1]
The hymnbook was "approved and confirmed by the king" on 29 January 1819, [2] but was not introduced for exclusive use throughout the country by one collective decision. Rather, it was successively adopted by each parish in the Church of Sweden by a separate decision at parish board meetings. From 1921 it was used together with a supplement, Nya psalmer [ sv ] , which included hymns by revivalists Lina Sandell and Carl Olof Rosenius . [1] [3]
The hymnal was in that sense the work of one man, as over half of the hymns were written or adapted by archbishop Johan Olof Wallin (1779–1839), [4] but other poets such as Frans Michael Franzén (1772–1847) and Erik Gustaf Geijer (1783–1847) were also involved. [5] Other participants with numerous hymns include vicar Johan Åström [ sv ] (1767–1844) and professor Samuel Ödmann [ sv ] (1750–1829). Three hymns (0.6%) were written by women.
Its content and style have been described as "on the border of the Age of Enlightenment and the Romantic Era ." [6]
Other collections of hymns and songs during this period included selections from the 1819 hymnal, sometimes with only certain verses included, such as in the Swedish Evangelical Mission's Sionstoner [ sv ] (1889) and the Stockholms söndagsskolförenings sångbok [ sv ] (Stockholm Sunday School Association's hymnal; 1882).
See also
References
- 1 2 Karlsson, Karin (2021). "Gemensamma psalmer – i olika böcker: Ett försök till inventering" . In Lundberg, Mattias (ed.). Tidegärden i kyrkotraditionerna . Årsbok för svensk gudstjänst liv (in Swedish). Vol. 96. pp. 193–250. Archived from the original on 2022-10-15 . Retrieved 2023-05-10 .
- ↑ "Det hände då 29 januari" . Sundsvalls Tidning (in Swedish). 2009-01-29. Archived from the original on 2017-10-06 . Retrieved 2023-05-10 .
- ↑ Alenius, Hanna (2020). "Wi anhålla, att få begagna wåra förfäders lärdom och underwisning, af wåra Gamla Psalmer.": Visitationshandlingarnas vittnesbörd om motståndet mot 1819 års psalmbok i övre Norrland under perioden 1819–1903 (PDF) (Thesis) (in Swedish). Linköping University . Archived (PDF) from the original on 2023-05-11 . Retrieved 2023-05-10 .
- ↑ "Wallinsk psalmbok firar 200 år" . Kyrkans Tidning (in Swedish) . Retrieved 2023-05-10 .
- ↑ "Franzén, Frans Michael" . Swedish Academy (in Swedish). 2022-09-28. Archived from the original on 2022-09-28 . Retrieved 2023-05-10 .
- ↑ Rynning, Paul Emil (1954). Salmediktingi i Noreg: frå dei fyrste kristne tider i vårt land og fram mot vår tid. 2 : Tidi etter 1814 (in Norwegian Nynorsk). Samlaget. pp. 15–16.
External links
- Den svenska psalmboken (in Swedish). Herzogs-Melins. 1932 – via Project Runeberg .