Kingo, Thomas a famous hymn-writer of Denmark, was born December 15, 1634, at Stangerup, in the island of Zealand. He studied theology at Copenhagen, and was appointed pastor of his native parish in 1668, and bishop of Funen in 1677. He died in 1703. Kingo was a poet born, and a powerful Christian character, and he has given the Danish Church some of its very best hymns. He published Aandelige Sjunge-Chor, a collection of hymns, 1674; and another collection in 1681. He also compiled, at the instance of the government, a new hymn-book, known as Kingo's Psalmebog, 1699, which is still in use. See Nordish Conversations-lexicon (1879), s.v.; Brandt og Helweg, Den Danske Psalmodigtning Historie (Copenhagen, 1847); Michelsen, in Plitt-Herzog's Real-Encyklop, s.v. (B.P.)
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John McClintock was born October 27, 1814 in Philadelphia to Irish immigrants, John and Martha McClintock. He began as a clerk in his father's store, and then became a bookkeeper in the Methodist Book Concern in New York. Here he converted to Methodism and considered joining the ministry. McClintock entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1832 and graduated with high honors three years later. Subsequently, he was awarded a doctorate of divinity degree from the same institution in 1848.WikipediaRead More