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Carl J. P. Spitta

1801-1859

​Carl Johann Spitta was born August 1, 1801, at Hanover, Germany, the son of Lebrecht Spitta, a bookkeeper and teacher of the French language.  Spitta completed his theological training at the University of Gottingen in 1828 and became a Lutheran minister and hymn writer.  He wrote 19 hymns in the Zion's Harp, second to Mangold.  He served several pastorates, was a tutor and served as a superintendent at Wittingen in 1847.  Spitta descended from a French Huguenot family who fled France in 1598 under similar circumstances as Samuel Froehlich's family, who was also of French Huguenot descent.  Spitta had begun to write in verse when he was eight years old, along with his brother Heinrich.  During his university study, he continued to write songs and secular poems and published a collection of songs.  Spitta, a teacher, came under a great conviction when an acquaintance of his so jested at things sacred, even in the presence of his pupils, that their friendship came to an end.  After this, a spiritual change came over Spitta and he ceased to write secular pieces.  His hymn writing seems to have begun in earnest in 1821.  In writing to a friend on May 5, 1826, Spitta related, "In the manner in which I have formerly sang, I sing no more.  To the Lord, I consecrate my life and my love and likewise my song.  His love is the one great theme of all my songs; to praise and exalt it worthily is the desire of the Christian singer."  On September 28, 1859, while sitting at his writing table he died of a heart attack.

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Special thanks to the Apostolic Christians who diligently labored to keep their rich musical heritage alive when most other denominations forsook it in the challenging battle of changing cultures.
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Thanks be to those souls who labored to write and compose this treasure of praise, many now only known to GOD!

Above all, thanks, praise, and glory be to GOD!
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  • Home
    • Stories of Faith >
      • The Prodigal Son and the Zion’s Harp
      • Steep and Thorny is the Way
      • With Your Zion’s Harps Now Chiming, Praise the Lord!
      • Faithful Unto Death Remain
      • A Loving Devotion to Producing Zion’s Harps, One Copy Per Year
      • Hungarians Begin to Visit Brethren in Communist Ukraine
      • Zion’s Harp Melody Bridges Language Gap
      • Brethren Be Ye Not Affrighted
      • A Letter from Prison
    • Authors
    • Composers
  • Translations
    • Neue Zionsharfe- German
    • Új Sion Hárfa- Hungarian
    • Xapɸa Cиoha- Serbian
    • Noua Harfă A Sionului- Romainian
    • Svete Pisme Novog Siona- Sokac
    • Cithare Davida illi pisme Novog Siona- Bunjevac
    • Harfa Siona- Slovak
    • ПЕСНІ І ХВАЛУ У ХРІСТІ- Ukrainian
    • Zion's Harp
    • Apostolic Christian Hymnal >
      • ACH Texts
      • ACH Sheet Music
    • Arpa De Sion- Spanish
    • Nova Harpa de Sião- Portuguese
    • Sions Harfa- Swedish
    • シオンの竪琴 - Japanese
    • Harfa Siona- Croatian
    • Zion's Hymns
  • Contact
  • Shop
  • Acknowledgements