Background
Karl Heinrich von Bogatzky was born at Jankowy, Lower Silesia, Austrian Empire (now Poland) on the 7th of September 1690.
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Karl Heinrich von Bogatzky was born at Jankowy, Lower Silesia, Austrian Empire (now Poland) on the 7th of September 1690.
At first a page at the ducal court of Saxe-Weissenfels, he next studied law and theology at Jena and Halle.
Bogatzky settled at Glancha in Silesia, where he founded an orphanage. After living for a time at Kostritz, and from 1740 to 1745 at the court of Christian Ernst, duke of Saxe-Coburg, at Saalfeld, he made his home at the Waisenhaus (orphanage) at Halle, where he engaged in spiritual work and in composing hymns and sacred songs, until his death on the 15th of June 1774.
Bogatzky’s chief works are Güldenes Schatzkästlein der Kinder Gottes (1718), which has reached more than sixty editions; and Übung der Gottseligkeit in allerlei geistlichen Liedern (1750).
