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Den svenska psalmboken (1819)

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Deluxe edition from 1899. Fröléen & Comp. Lyrics, music, illustrations, gospel texts, etc.

Den svenska psalmboken – av Konungen gillad och stadfäst(ad) år 1819 ('The Swedish hymnal – approved and confirmed by the king in 1819'), also called the 1819 Hymnal and the Wallin Hymnal, was used in Sweden from 1819 to 1937 (with Haeffner's chorale book [sv]) and contained 500 hymns.[1]

The hymnbook was "approved and confirmed by the king" on 29 January 1819,[2] but was not introduced for exclusive use throughout the country by one collective decision. Rather, it was successively adopted by each parish in the Church of Sweden by a separate decision at parish board meetings. From 1921 it was used together with a supplement, Nya psalmer [sv], which included hymns by revivalists Lina Sandell and Carl Olof Rosenius.[1][3]

The hymnal was in that sense the work of one man, as over half of the hymns were written or adapted by archbishop Johan Olof Wallin (1779–1839),[4] but other poets such as Frans Michael Franzén (1772–1847) and Erik Gustaf Geijer (1783–1847) were also involved.[5] Other participants with numerous hymns include vicar Johan Åström [sv] (1767–1844) and professor Samuel Ödmann [sv] (1750–1829). Three hymns (0.6%) were written by women.

Its content and style have been described as "on the border of the Age of Enlightenment and the Romantic Era."[6]

Other collections of hymns and songs during this period included selections from the 1819 hymnal, sometimes with only certain verses included, such as in the Swedish Evangelical Mission's Sionstoner [sv] (1889) and the Stockholms söndagsskolförenings sångbok [sv] (Stockholm Sunday School Association's hymnal; 1882).

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  1. ^ a b Karlsson, Karin (2021). "Gemensamma psalmer – i olika böcker: Ett försök till inventering". In Lundberg, Mattias (ed.). Tidegärden i kyrkotraditionerna. Årsbok för svensk gudstjänst liv (in Swedish). Vol. 96. pp. 193–250. Archived from the original on 2022-10-15. Retrieved 2023-05-10.
  2. ^ "Det hände då 29 januari". Sundsvalls Tidning (in Swedish). 2009-01-29. Archived from the original on 2017-10-06. Retrieved 2023-05-10.
  3. ^ Alenius, Hanna (2020). "Wi anhålla, att få begagna wåra förfäders lärdom och underwisning, af wåra Gamla Psalmer.": Visitationshandlingarnas vittnesbörd om motståndet mot 1819 års psalmbok i övre Norrland under perioden 1819–1903 (PDF) (Thesis) (in Swedish). Linköping University. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2023-05-11. Retrieved 2023-05-10.
  4. ^ "Wallinsk psalmbok firar 200 år". Kyrkans Tidning (in Swedish). Retrieved 2023-05-10.
  5. ^ "Franzén, Frans Michael". Swedish Academy (in Swedish). 2022-09-28. Archived from the original on 2022-09-28. Retrieved 2023-05-10.
  6. ^ Rynning, Paul Emil (1954). Salmediktingi i Noreg: frå dei fyrste kristne tider i vårt land og fram mot vår tid. 2 : Tidi etter 1814 (in Norwegian Nynorsk). Samlaget. pp. 15–16.
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