Reception of Surinkimininkai Repertory in Prussian Lithuanian Works of the Second Half of the 19th Century

Abstract

The article aims to investigate the influence of the Surinkimininkai hymnal Visokios naujos giesmės arba evangeliški psalmai on Prussian Lithuanian books of the second half of the 19^th century and reveal the attitude of clergy in Lithuanian parishes, as well as that of members of the Lithuanian Literary Society in Tilsit (which included representatives of the Lutheran Church and educators) towards the Surinkimininkai repertoire. The following sources were selected for analysis: the hymnals Gieſmjû bey Maldû=Knygos Karalißkojo Pruſû Waiſko (1854, Königsberg) and Trecʒioji Dalis Gieſmjû Knygû (1857, Königsberg) by Friedrich Kurschat, the school hymnal 64 Gieſmes (1856, 1862, Tilsit) by Carl Wilhelm Otto Glogau, the anthology Litauische Chrestomathie zum Schulgebrauch (1880, Memel) by Carl Rudolph Jacoby, the reading book Litauisches elementarbuch (1898, Heidelberg) by Maximilian Voelkel, the collection of melodies Gieſmiu Balſai (1894, Heidelberg, Tilsit) by Carl Theodor Waldemar Hoffheinz, and the publications on hymnody in the scholarly periodical Mitteilungen der Litauischen litterarischen Gesellschaft. The analytical, comparative and textological methods were employed for the investigation.