By BBC Music Magazine

Published: Sunday, 01 January 2023 at 12:00 am


Who wrote the hymn ‘I Know That My Redeemer’?

The hymn ‘I Know That My Redeemer lives’ was written by 19th century American hymn writer Jessie Brown Pounds from Cleveland. Pound suffered with ill health as a child so was was home taught, and in her spare time started writing verses for the Cleveland newspapers and religious media.

Her work was then noticed by  J. H. Fillmore, who asked her to wrote some hymns for a book he was publishing. Her hymn writing career was born and during her lifetime Pounds wrote around 800 hymns, including ‘Anywhere with Jesus’ and ‘Beautiful Isle of Somewhere’.