Quas Laudes TIBI NOS, PATER, CANEMUS, is the beginning of one of the hymns written by the "prceceptor Germanise," Philip Melancthon (q.v.). It was composed in the year 1527, and is based on Psalm 111. It is found with his other poems, of which he composed aItogether about 400, in Bretschneider's Corpus Reformatorum (Hal. Sax. 1842), vol. 10. A selection of about fifty- one, together with a German metrical translation, was published by Oberhey, Melancthon's Gedichte, Musgewihlt und ubersetzt (Halle, bei Muhlmann, 1862). See Koch, Geschichte des deutschen Kirchenliedes, i, 259. (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