Matthias Loy

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Matthias Loy (March 17, 1828 - January 26, 1915) was an American Lutheran theologian in the Evangelical Lutheran Joint Synod of Ohio. Loy was a prominent pastor, editor, author, and hymnist who served as president of Capital University in Columbus, Ohio. [1]

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Biography

Matthias Loy was the fourth of seven children of Matthias and Christina Loy, immigrants from Germany who lived as tenant farmers in the Blue Mountain area of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. In 1834, when Matthias was six years old, the family moved to Hogestown, a village nine miles (14 km) west of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. When he was 14, he was sent as an apprentice to Baab and Hummel, printers of Harrisburg. Here he worked for six years, while attending school. He received a classical education at Harrisburg Academy and graduated from the German Theological Seminary of the Ohio Synod, a predecessor body of Trinity Lutheran Seminary, in Columbus, Ohio, in 1849.

In 1849, he entered the Lutheran ministry and became pastor at Delaware, Ohio. In 1865, he resigned his pastorate to become professor in the Theological Seminary of Capital University in Columbus. In 1881, he was elected president of Capital University. Following a critical attack of angina pectoris, he retired as professor emeritus in 1902 [2]

Loy edited the Lutheran Standard, official periodical of the Evangelical Lutheran Joint Synod of Ohio, from 1864 until 1890. In 1881, he founded the Columbus Theological Magazine and managed it for ten years. He was president of the Ohio Synod from 1860 to 1878 and again from 1880 to 1894. In 1887, Muhlenberg College awarded him the degree of Doctor of Divinity. He wrote 21 hymns and also translated a number of German hymns into the English language. He also edited a translation of Dr. Martin Luther's House Postil in three volumes (1874–1884). [3]

He died in Columbus on January 26, 1915. [4]

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Hymns

Hymns written or translated by Matthias Loy are included in a number of Lutheran hymnbooks, including The Lutheran Hymnal (1941), [5] Service Book and Hymnal (1958), [6] Lutheran Worship (1982), [7] Christian Worship: A Lutheran Hymnal (1993), [8] and Lutheran Service Book (2006). [9]

References

  1. ↑ "Mathias Loy, 1828-1915 (cyberhymnal.org)". Archived from the original on August 31, 2005. Retrieved August 10, 2006.
  2. ↑ Loy, Matthias, 1828-1915 (Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary Handbook— Biographies and Sources)
  3. ↑ "Loy, Leader Of Ohio's Lutherans (Ohio History Journal)". Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved April 12, 2015.
  4. ↑ "Venerable Preacher Called". The Cincinnati Enquirer . Columbus, Ohio. January 27, 1915. p. 2. Retrieved February 6, 2020– via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference of North America (1941). The Lutheran Hymnal . St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House.
  6. ↑ The Commission on the Liturgy and Hymnal (1958). Service Book and Hymnal (13th ed.). Minneapolis and Philadelphia: Augsburg Publishing House and Board of Publication of the Lutheran Church in America. pp. 260, 506, 518.
  7. ↑ Commission on Worship of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (1982). Lutheran Worship . St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House. pp. 235, 249, 257, 329, 330, 363, 477.
  8. ↑ Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (1983). Christian Worship: A Lutheran Hymnal . Milwaukee: Northwestern Publishing House. pp. 282, 287, 288, 308, 378, 514, 596. ISBN   978-0-8100-0422-1.
  9. ↑ Commission on Worship of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (2006). Lutheran Service Book. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House. pp. 514, 562, 579, 580, 614, 628, 689, 865, 908. ISBN   0-7586-1217-6.

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