Lyricist: Edmond Louis Budry
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Biography
Edmond Louis Budry (1685 - 1732) was a Swiss hymn writer famous for writing the lyrics to the hymn Thine Be the Glory (À toi la gloire to music from Judas Maccabaeus by [:Category:George Frideric Handel|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 (Lausanne, Switzerland: 1885). He died in Vevey and is buried in Cully.
