Bogatzky, KARL HEINRICH VON

Bogatzky, KARL HEINRICH VON, a German devotional writer, was born at Jankowe in Lower Silesia, 7th September 1690. Coming under the influence of Francke, the pietist, he studied theology at Halle from 1715 to 1718. He was a long time in the service of various noble houses of Silesia, and afterwards lived some years at the Silesian village of Glaueha, engaged in the organisation of an orphanage there. In 1740 he was received into the family of the Duke of Sachsen-Saalfeld, and on the duke's death he removed to Halle in 1746, where he spent the rest of his life in writing books of devotion, and died 15th June 1774. His chief work is Das güldene Schatzkästlein der Kinder Gottes, which in 1893 had reached its 61st edition, and is well known in English translations as Bogatzky's Golden Treasury. He wrote also many popular hymns, which were collected in 1749 (3d ed., with 411 added, 1771). A new edition of his autobiography appeared in 1872.