Layritz, Friedrich

Layritz, Friedrich a famous German hymnologist, was born January 30, 1808, at Nemmersdorf, in Upper Franconia. He studied at Erlangen, was in 1837 preacher in Hirschlach, and died at Schwaningen, near Anspach, in 1859. He is the author of, Kern des deufschen Kirchengesanges (3d ed. Nordlingen, 1853-56): — Litusrgische Gemeindegesange (1855): — Geistliche Melodien meist aus dem 16. und 17. Jahrhundert (3d ed. Erlangen, 1860): — Die Lituyrie eines vollstandigen Hauptgottesdienstes

(1849). See Zuchold, Bibl. Theol. 2:772; Koch, Geschichte des deutschen Kirchenliedes, 7:53 sq. (B.P.)