Eschenburg, Johann Joachim

Eschenburg, Johann Joachim a Lutheran hymn-writer of Germany, was born December 7, 1743, at Hamburg, and died at Brunswick, February 29, 1820. He is the author of twelve hymns. See Jordens, Lexicon deutscher Dichter und Prosaisten, 6:768-798; Schroder, Lexicon der Hamburgischen Schriftsteller, volume 2; Koch, Geschichte des deutschen Kirchenliedes, 6:237 sq.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 2:290. (B.P.)