August 12
1257 Thomas
Aquinas (ca. 1225–1274) was
finally reluctantly admitted as a doctor of theology by
schools whose rivalry strained their charity.
1532
William Paget (1506–1563), an
ardent English Lutheran, again attempted to persuade Martin
Luther to side with Henry VIII of England in his divorce
from Catherine.
1536
Christian II (1481–1559)
established the Reformation in Denmark.
1551
Paul Speratus, Luther’s co-worker who helped prepare the
first Protestant hymnal, died (b. 13 December 1484, Rötlen,
near Ellwangen). [German
Wikipedia article]
1715 Nahum Tate,
hymnist, died (b. 1652).
1728
Anthony Jacob Henkel, patriarch of the
Lutheran Henkel family in America, was killed by a fall
from his horse (b. 27 October 1668, Me[h]renberg, Nassau).
1812
Archibald Alexander (1772–1851)
became the first professor of Princeton Theological
Seminary.
1825 Sir
Frederick A. Gore-Ouseley, composer, was born in London
(d. 6 April 1889).
1827 William
Blake (b. 28 November 1757), English poet and artist,
died.
1838 Joseph
Barnby, musician and composer, was born in York, England
(d. 28 January 1896).
1859
Katharine Lee Bates, U.S. English teacher, was born in
Falmouth, Massachusetts (d. 28 March 1929). The daughter and
granddaughter of Congregational ministers, she taught high
school for six years (1880–1886),
then taught at Wellesley College, where she later was made
head of the English Department. She is best remembered as
the author of "O Beautiful for Spacious Skies."
1891 James
Russell Lowell (b. 22 February 1819), American poet and
statesman, died.
1909
Zenas Sanford Loftis, missionary to Tibet, died (b. 11
May 1881, Gainsboro, Tennessee).
1923 Casa Publicadora, Porto Alegre,
Brazil, was founded.
1942 William Cameron Townsend and L. L.
Legters incorporated the
Wycliffe Bible Translators in Glendale, California.
1943
Juergen Ludwig Neve, Lutheran professor and author, died
(b. 7 June 1865, Silesia, Germany).
