FREYIA, the sister of Frey (q.v.). FREYLINGHAUSEN, JOHANN AN A S TA S I U S (167o-1739), German theologian and poet, was born on Dec. 2, 1670, at Gandersheim, and studied theology at Jena, Erfurt and Halle, where, in 1727, he succeeded A. H. Francke as superintend ent of the Paedagogium and of the orphan asylum, and as head pastor of St. Ulrich's church. Freylinghausen was one of the most gifted of the poets of German Pietism, and has left important editions of hymnals, which were published in 1704 and in 1714. They were reprinted in W. Schirck's Geistliche Sanger (pt. 2, 1855), and some were translated by C. Winkworth, Lyra German ica (1868).
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