Born: Jan­u­a­ry 1, 1819, Chur, Switz­er­land.

Died: Oc­to­ber 20, 1893, New York Ci­ty.

Schaff was ed­u­cat­ed at the Un­i­ver­si­ties in Tü­bing­en, Halle, and Ber­lin, Ger­ma­ny. Af­ter em­i­grat­ing to Amer­i­ca in 1844, he taught at the Mer­cers­burg Re­formed Sem­in­a­ry in Mer­cers­burg, Penn­syl­van­ia. In 1870, he moved to the Un­ion The­o­lo­gi­cal Sem­in­a­ry, New York Ci­ty, where was a pro­fess­or of sac­red li­ter­a­ture. His works in­clude:

• Deutsches Ge­sang­buch (Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: 1859)
• Christ in Song (New York: 1869)
• Hymns and Songs of Praise for Pub­lic and So­cial Wor­ship, 1874 (with Ros­well D. Hitch­cock and Zach­a­ry Ed­dy)
• Library of Re­li­gious Po­e­try, 1881 (with A. Gil­man)

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Translations

1. O Bread of Life from Heaven