Henry Van Dyke, (born November 10, 1852, Germantown, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died April 10, 1933, Princeton, New Jersey), U.S. short-story writer, poet, and essayist popular in the early decades of the 20th century. Educated at Princeton, Van Dyke graduated from its theological seminary in 1877 and became a Presbyterian minister. Among his popular writings are the two Christmas stories, “The Other Wise Man” (1896) and “The First Christmas Tree” (1897). Various religious themes of his work are also expressed in his poetry, hymns and the essays collected in Little Rivers (1895) and Fisherman’s Luck (1899). He wrote the lyrics to the popular hymn, “Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee” (1907), sung to the tune of Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”. He compiled several short stories in The Blue Flower (1902), named after the key symbol of Romanticism introduced first by Novalis. He also contributed a chapter to the collaborative novel, The Whole Family (1908).