Born: March 8, 1835, New Ha­ven, Con­nec­ti­cut.

Died: March 9, 1905.

Anketell was ed­u­cat­ed at Yale Coll­ege, New Ha­ven, Con­nec­ti­cut, and at the Un­i­ver­si­ty of Halle-Wit­ten­berg in Prus­sian Sax­o­ny. He was or­dained a dea­con of the Amer­i­can Epis­co­pal church in 1859, and priest in 1860. He found­ed St. John’s (Amer­i­can) Epis­co­pal Church in Dres­den, Ger­ma­ny, in 1869, and lat­er be­came pro­fess­or of He­brew and Greek Exe­ge­sis at Sea­bury Di­vin­i­ty School, Far­i­bault, Min­ne­so­ta. Anketell trans­lat­ed about 120 hymns from Ger­man, Greek, La­tin, He­brew, French, Span­ish, Da­nish, Ital­i­an and Syriac; these ap­peared in the Church Re­view (New York), start­ing in 1876, and in other per­i­od­i­cals. His other works in­clude:

• Gospel and Epis­tle Hymns for the Christ­ian Year (New York: 1889)

Sources

Lyrics

1. Lord Je­sus, on the Ho­ly Mount