Heinrich Bone

Heinrich Bone
Heinrich Bone c. 1860
Born(1813-09-25)25 September 1813
Died10 June 1893(1893-06-10) (aged 79)
EducationUniversity of Bonn
Occupations
  • Educator
  • School director
  • Hymnwriter
  • Editor
Organization
AwardsOrder of Philip the Magnanimous

Heinrich Bone (25 September 1813 – 10 June 1893) was a German educator and hymnwriter. He wrote a reader for German studies which was used for higher education in Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria, until it was banned during the Kulturkampf. He published a hymnal, Cantate!, which was used by several Catholic dioceses and became a model for common hymnals. Some of his own hymns, including paraphrases of Latin hymns, are part of recent hymnals, both Catholic and Protestant, such as "Komm, Schöpfer Geist, kehr bei uns ein" as a paraphrase of the 9th-century hymn for Pentecost, Veni Creator Spiritus.