1. Catherine Winkworth was an English hymnwriter and educator.
16 Facts About Catherine Winkworth
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Catherine Winkworth translated the German chorale tradition of church hymns for English speakers, for which she is recognized in the calendar of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
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Catherine Winkworth worked for wider educational opportunities for girls, and translated biographies of two founders of religious sisterhoods.
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When 16, Winkworth appears to have coined a once well-known political pun, peccavi, "I have Sindh", relating to the British occupation of Sindh in colonial India.
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Catherine Winkworth was born on 13 September 1827 at 20 Ely Place, Holborn on the edge of the City of London.
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Catherine Winkworth was the fourth daughter of Henry Winkworth, a silk merchant.
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Catherine Winkworth studied under the Rev William Gaskell, minister of Cross Street Chapel, and with Dr James Martineau, both of them eminent British Unitarians.
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Catherine Winkworth subsequently moved with the family to Clifton, near Bristol.
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Catherine Winkworth spent a year in Dresden, during which time she took an interest in German hymnody.
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Catherine Winkworth translated Gerhardt's "Die guldne Sonne voll Freud und Wonne" into "The golden sunbeams with their joyous gleams".
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Catherine Winkworth was involved deeply in promoting women's education, as the secretary of the Clifton Association for Higher Education for Women, and a supporter of the Clifton High School for Girls, where a school house is named after her, and a member of Cheltenham Ladies' College.
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Catherine Winkworth was likewise governor of the Red Maids' School in Westbury-on-Trym in the city of Bristol.
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Catherine Winkworth translated biographies of two founders of sisterhoods for the poor and the sick: Life of Pastor Fliedner, 1861, and Life of Amelia Sieveking, 1863.
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Catherine Winkworth sent her joke to the new humorous magazine Punch, which printed it on 18 May 1844.
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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations attributes this to Catherine Winkworth, noting that it was assigned to her in Notes and Queries in May 1954.
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Catherine Winkworth died suddenly of heart disease near Geneva on 1 July 1878 and was buried in Monnetier, in Upper Savoy.