Feb­ru­a­ry 11, 1660, Nürn­berg, Ger­ma­ny.

March 11, 1722, Nürn­berg, Ger­ma­ny.

Son of jew­el­er Ni­co­laus Dess­ler, Wolf­gang stu­died the­ol­o­gy at the Un­i­ver­si­ty of Alt­dorf, though he was un­a­ble to com­plete his de­gree there. Up­on re­turn to Nürn­berg, he sup­port­ed him­self as a proof­read­er, worked as an aman­u­en­sis for Eras­mus Finx (or Fran­cis­ci), and trans­lat­ed ma­ny re­li­gious works in­to Ger­man. In 1705, he was ap­point­ed Con­rec­tor of the School of the Ho­ly Ghost in Nürn­berg, un­til re­sign­ing due to pa­ral­y­sis in 1720. His works in­clude:

• Gottgeheiligter Christ­en nütz­lich er­getz­ende Seel­en­lust un­ter den Blum­en gött­lich­es Worts, oder an­däch­ti­ge Be­tracht­ung­en und Ge­dank­en über un­ter­schied­liche er­läut­erte Schrift­sprüche (Nürn­berg, Ger­ma­ny: 1692)

• Julian, pp. 289-90

1. Frisch, frisch hin­nach, mein Geist und Herz
2. Ich lass dich nicht, du musst mein Je­sus bleib­en
   • I Leave Thee Not
   • I Will Not Let Thee Go
3. Mein Je­su dem die Ser­a­phi­nen
   • Into Thy Gra­cious Hands I Fall
   • Jesus, Whose Glo­ry’s Stream­ing Rays
   • My Je­sus, if the Ser­a­phim
   • My Je­sus, Whom the Ser­aph Host
   • My Sav­ior, Whom in Hea­ven­ly Plac­es
   • O Je­su! ’Fore Whose Ra­di­a­tion
   • O Je­su, Lord, En­throned in Glo­ry
4. Öffne mir die Perl­en­pfort­en
   • Now the Pearly Gates Un­fold
5. Wie wohl ist mir, O Freund der Seel­en
   • How Well I Am, Thou My Soul’s Lov­er
   • My Soul’s Best Friend, What Joy and Bless­ing
   • O Friend of Souls
   • O Lord, How Hap­py Is the Time
   • ’Tis Well with Me, O Friend Un­fail­ing