Anna Hoppe was born on May 7, 1889 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She left school after the eighth grade and worked as a stenographer. She began writing patriotic verses when she was very young and by the age of 25 she was writing spiritual poetry. After some of her poems appeared in the Northwestern Lutheran, a periodical of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, they came to the attention of Dr. Adolf Hult of Augustana Seminary, Rock Island, Illinois. He influenced her to write her Songs for the Church Year (1928). Several hymnals include her work, which was usually set to traditional chorale melodies, although she also made a number of translations. She died on August 2, 1941 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
https://hymnary.org/person/Hoppe_AB

https://www.fortresspress.com/store/product/9781942304333/Anna-B-Hoppe

https://www.amazon.com/Hoppe-Shaping-American-Lutheran-Church/dp/1942304331

Today's guest is Elisabeth Urtel. After graduating from Bethany Lutheran College, where she studied church music and religion, Elisabeth received her Master of Arts in Lutheran Theological Studies from Bethany Lutheran
Theological Seminary in 2016. Her recent publication Anna B. Hoppe: Her Life and Hymnody draws upon her thesis for this program. In December 2016, she earned her Master of Church Music in organ from Concordia University Wisconsin. Currently, she is a PhD candidate in Historical Theology at Concordia Seminary (St. Louis, MO) where her advisor is Dr. Gerhard Bode. Through Concordia, she was honored to be a guest researcher at the Herzog-August-Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel, Germany in 2019.
Her research interests include women in early-modern Germany, American-Lutheran history, and recovering a greater appreciation for the Lutheran musical heritage. Articles she has authored have been published in LOGIA and Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology, and she has been a guest lecturer at several Lutheran institutions and conferences.
She is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod, and is active as a church musician and collaborative pianist in southern Minnesota. When not performing, Elisabeth enjoys reading, writing, traveling, running, languages, and history.

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  • Benjamin Phelps is a 2014 graduate from Martin Luther College with a Bachelor of Arts with a German emphasis. From there went on to graduate from Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary in 2018.
    Ben loves all things history and enjoys traveling. A descendant of over a dozen Lutheran pastors, Ben has an interest in his family roots, especially 19th-century Lutheranism, and has written several papers and journal articles on the topic. His 2018 thesis on Wyneken won the John Harrison Ness award and the Abdel Ross Wentz prize. He is also the recipient of two awards of commendation from the Concordia Historical Institute.
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