Clinging to the Wrong Catherine?: The Misattribution of Catherine of Mecklenburg’s "Burr" Quotation to Catherine Luther and Its Obscured Reference in Two Lutheran Hymns
This study in Lutheran hymnody and Lutheran history treats two related subjects in order: the faulty attribution of a popular quotation from the Reformation period, and its echo in two German hymns afterward obscured in the English translation. Since the nineteenth century, popular literature in Eng...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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The Johns Hopkins University Press
2022
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Lutheran quarterly
Year: 2022, Volume: 36, Issue: 4, Pages: 390-397 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KDD Protestant Church RD Hymnology |
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| Summary: | This study in Lutheran hymnody and Lutheran history treats two related subjects in order: the faulty attribution of a popular quotation from the Reformation period, and its echo in two German hymns afterward obscured in the English translation. Since the nineteenth century, popular literature in English-speaking countries increasingly attributed to Luther’s wife Catherine, née von Bora, the quotation "I will cling to my Savior like a burr to cloth." The history of this attribution, which is still treated uncritically, is here traced to its probable literary source. Second, the author highlights the reference to this quotation in two German Lutheran hymns "Jesus der ist mein Leben" and "Meinen Jesum laß ich nicht" (translated: "For Me to Live Is Jesus" and "Jesus I Will Never Leave," respectively) and offers a new English rendering where the reference is obscured. |
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| ISSN: | 2470-5616 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Lutheran quarterly
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