The American Cyclopædia (1879)/Knapp, Albert

KNAPP, Albert, a German poet, born in Tübingen, July 25, 1798, died in Stuttgart, June 18, 1864. After becoming pastor at Stuttgart, he applied himself to poetry, especially to the composition of hymns, and published a small volume of them annually between 1833 and 1853, under the title of Christoterpe. Among his other publications are three collections of poems (Stuttgart, 1829, 1834, and 1843), and Evangelischer Liederschatz für Kirche und Haus (1837; 3d ed., 1865), taken from the liturgies and hymns of every Christian century.