Start­ing around 1883, Døving spent se­ven years in South Af­ri­ca, teach­ing at the Schreud­er Mis­sion in Na­tal. He em­i­grat­ed to Amer­i­ca in 1890, grad­u­at­ed from Lu­ther Sem­in­ary (1896) and Lu­ther Coll­ege, De­cor­ah, Io­wa (BA 1903). He served as pas­tor in Lu­theran church­es in Red Wing and Mon­te­video, Min­ne­sota, and Brook­lyn, New York, and was ci­ty miss­ion­a­ry to Chi­ca­go. He is best known as a trans­lat­or of Ger­man and Scan­din­av­i­an hymns; over 30 of his trans­la­tions ap­pear in the 1913 Lu­ther­an Hymn­a­ry.

• Erickson, p. 279
• Hustad, p. 233
• Stulken, p. 146

1. Before Thee, God, Who Know­est All
2. Behold the Host Ar­rayed in White
3. Built on the Rock
4. How Blessed Is the Lit­tle Flock
5. I Come to Thee, O Bless­èd Lord
6. I Know of a Sleep in Je­sus’ Name
7. Love, the Fount of Light from Hea­ven
8. Oh, Sing with Ex­ul­ta­tion
9. Our Lord and God, Oh, Bless This Day
10. Rejoice, Re­joice, This Hap­py Morn
11. To God the An­them Rais­ing