In the year that Luther nailed his famous theses on the chapel door at Wittenberg, two brothers-Olavus and laurentius Petri-arrived from Sweden to study at the university made famous by Luther and Melanchthon.
"The Story of Our Hymns"
Ernest Edwin Ryden
It was in 1526 that laurentius Andreae published his translation of the New Testament in Swedish, and simultaneously Olavus Petri issued a little hymn-book entitled, "Swedish Hymns or Songs."
"The Story of Our Hymns"
Ernest Edwin Ryden
His hymnological endeavors were continued by his brother laurentius, who, as archbishop, brought out in 1567, and later in 1572, the most important of all the earlier hymn-books of the Swedish Church.
"The Story of Our Hymns"
Ernest Edwin Ryden