Born: Ap­ril 5, 1701, Hirsch­berg, Schle­sien (Si­le­sia).

Died: De­cem­ber 13, 1762, Lieg­nitz, Ger­ma­ny.

Jonathan was son of Christ­ian Wil­helm Krause, Mas­ter of the Cloth­work­ers and Sex­ton at Hirsch­berg. En­ter­ing the Un­i­ver­si­ty of Leip­zig in 1718, he went in 1723 to Wit­ten­berg, where he grad­u­at­ed MA He was then for some time trav­el­ing tu­tor to a young Bar­on von Birk­en, and 1727-32 a tu­tor in the fam­i­ly of Bar­on von Nos­titz, at Polg­sen, near Wohl­au. On Au­gust 20, 1732, he was or­dained as Di­a­co­nus of Probst­hayn, near Lieg­nitz, and in 1739 be­came chief pas­tor of the Church of St. Pe­ter and St. Paul at Liegnitz. In 1741 he was al­so ap­point­ed Su­per­in­ten­dent and As­sess­or of the Con­sis­to­ry. Krause’s works in­clude:

• Die zum Lobe Gott­es er­öff­ne­te Lip­pen der Gläubigen (Ham­burg, Ger­ma­ny: 1732)
• Gnade und Wahr­heit Gott­es in Christo Jesu (Leipzig and Lau­ban, 1739)
• Liegnitz Ge­sang­buch, 1745 (ed­it­or)

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Hymns

1. Allejuja! schön­er Mor­gen
   • Alleluia, Fairest Morn­ing