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Hans Adolf Brorson

1694 - 1764 Person Name: H. A. Brorson Author of "By Faith We Are Divinely Sure" in Hymnal for Church and Home

1877 - 1970 Person Name: J. C. Aaberg, 1877-1970 Translator of "By Faith We Are Divinely Sure" in Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary Jens Christian Aaberg (b. Moberg, Denmark, 1877; d. Minneapolis, MN, 1970) immigrated to the United States in 1901. Educated at Grand View College and Seminary in Des Moines, Iowa, he entered the ministry of the Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and served congregations in Marinette, Wisconsin; Dwight, Illinois; and Minneapolis, Minnesota. Aaberg wrote Hymns and Hymnwriters of Denmark (1945), translated at least eighty hymns from Danish into English, and served on four hymnal committees. In 1947 King Frederick of Denmark awarded him the Knight Cross of Denmark. --Psalter Hymnal Handbook, 1987