Felix Adler

Felix Adler
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Short Name: Felix Adler
Full Name: Adler, Felix, 1851-1933
Birth Year: 1851
Death Year: 1933

Adler, Felix, Ph.D. Born in Germany in 1851; taken to New York in 1857; graduated at Columbia College 1870; and Professor of Hebrew and Oriental Literature at Cornell University, 1874-76. He published in 1877 Creed and Deed. His hymn, "Sing we of the golden city" (City of our Hopes) is in The Pilgrim Hymnal, 1904. Sometimes given as "Have you heard of the golden city?"

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Wikipedia Biography

Felix Adler (August 13, 1851 – April 24, 1933) was a German American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, influential lecturer on euthanasia, religious leader and social reformer who founded the Ethical Culture movement.

Texts by Felix Adler (9)sort descendingAsAuthority LanguagesInstances
Father, see thy suppliant childrenFelix Adler (Translator)5
Hail the glorious golden cityFelix Adler (Author)English47
Happy he that never wandersFelix Adler (Author)3
Have you heard the golden cityFelix Adler (Author)English6
Loud let the swelling anthems riseFelix Adler (Author)3
Our Shepherd is the Lord, And usFelix Adler (Author)6
Sing to the Sovereign of the skiesFelix Adler (Author)English5
Sing we of the golden cityFelix Adler (Author)English20
Splendor of the morning sunlightFelix Adler (Author)6

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