Albert, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt [SEP] noble title
Albert, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
Albert, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (30 April 1798 – 26 November 1869) was a sovereign prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt.
Biography.
He was born in Rudolstadt the second son of the reigning prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Louis Frederick II and his wife Landgravine Caroline of Hesse-Homburg (1771–1854). His father died on 28 April 1807 and his brother Friedrich Günther (* 1793) succeeded him as sovereign prince with Albert becoming the heir presumptive. Landgravine Caroline
The Countess Ämilie Juliane von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, born to a noble family, received a good education in religion, Latin, history, among other sciences. She married, in 1665, to Count Albert Anton. Regarded as a forerunner of pietism, she wrote 587 extant songs, including Lutheran hymns such as "". 
The hymn's dated autograph is held by the Kirchenbibliothek zu Gera (Church library at Gera). The hymn was first published in 1686. It appears in the current German Protestant hymnal (