Edmond Louis Budry
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1854 – 1932
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Who was Edmond Louis Budry?
Edmond Louis Budry was a Swiss hymn writer famous for writing the lyrics to the hymn "Thine Be the Glory" to music from Judas Maccabaeus by George Frideric Handel.
Born in Vevey, he studied theology in Lausanne and was a pastor at Cully and Sainte-Croix between 1881 and 1889. He then became pastor of the Free Church in Vevey for a further 35 years, retiring in 1923. Besides writing original hymns, he translated German, English, and Latin lyrics into French. Some of his work appeared in Chants Evangéliques. He died in Vevey and is buried in Cully.
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