Mowes, Heinrich

Mowes, Heinrich a Lutheran clergyman who flourished in Germany in the early part of this century, was settled near Magdeburg, Prussia. His life was marked by severe afflictions, which he bore with heroic faith. He died in 1831. He will be known to the English reader principally from his triumphant hymn, "Hallelujah! I believe," translated in Hymns from the Land of Luther.