Surname: Robertson Forename(s): William Bruce b. 24 May 1820. d. 27 June 1886. Nationality: Scottish. VIAF.
Poet, hymn writer, translator, and United Presbyterian church minister. Born in Stirlingshire,
Scotland. Educated at the University of Glasgow, University of Edinburgh, and Martin
Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in Germany. Ordained in 1843. Author of Hosanna (1854). Biographical information: ODNB ; Songs of the Christian Creed and Life, Selected from Eighteen Centuries, ed. by Hamilton M. Macgill, Basil Montgau Pickering, 1876, p. 48. (CC)