Born: Jan­u­a­ry 3, 1650, Dan­zig (Gdansk), Poland.

Died: Au­gust 20, 1727, Dan­zig, Poland.

Lange worked for some time as a se­cre­ta­ry in Dan­zig, and lat­er in Warsaw. In 1691, he was ap­point­ed judge in the Alt­stadt of Dan­zig, and in 1694 sen­at­or. Af­ter vi­sit­ing Hol­land in 1698, he al­lied him­self with the Men­non­ites and Pi­e­tists in Dan­zig, and came in­to con­flict with the Lu­ther­an church. His hymns were most­ly writ­ten about the time when pes­ti­lence hit Dan­zig in 1710, and prin­ci­pal­ly ap­peared in his LXI. Gott ge­heil­ig­te Stund­en (prob­ab­ly pub­lished at Dan­zig in 1711).

Sources

Hymns

1. Im Ab­end blinkt der Mor­gen­stern
   • Wondering Sages Trace from Afar, The
   • At Eve Appears the Morn­ing Star
2. O Gott, du Tiefe sonder Grund
   • O God, Thou Bottomless Abyss
   • Thine, Lord, Is Wisdom, Thine Alone
   • Thou True and Only God
3. Uner denen grossen Gütern
   • Ma­ny a Gift Did Christ Impart
   • Thou I Speak Angel Tongues