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Louis F. Benson

Entity ID:

louis-f-benson

Long Name:

Benson, Louis Fitzgerald, 1855-1930

Short Name:

Louis F. Benson

Disambiguation String:

minister and hymn enthusiast

Entity Type:

person

Entity Subtype:

author

Summary:

Benson grad­u­at­ed from the Un­i­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­van­ia law school, but prac­ticed law on­ly sev­en years. In 1877, he en­tered Prince­ton The­o­log­ic­al Sem­in­ary, where his fa­ther was a trust­ee. Up­on grad­u­a­tion, Louis was or­dained a min­is­ter and pas­tored at the Pres­by­ter­i­an Church of the Re­deem­er in Ger­man­town, Penn­syl­van­ia. He al­so be­came a lead­ing au­thor­i­ty in hymn­ol­o­gy; his lib­rary even­tu­al­ly grew to 9,000 vol­umes. In 1895, Benson helped edit The Hymn­al of the Pres­by­ter­i­an Church in the United States of Amer­i­ca.

Viaf ID:

68500556

Biblical Status:

Not Biblical

Is An Individual:

Yes

Is Published:

Yes

Birth Date:

July 22, 1855

Death Date:

October 10, 1930

Occupation:

minister and author

Nationality:

American

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