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Personal data Nicholas Ludwig Count Zinzendorf 

• He was born on May 26, 1700 in Dresden, Germany.Source 1
• He died on May 9, 1760 in Herrnhut, Germany, he was 59 years old.Source 1
• A child of Sir Georg Ludwig and Rosina Catharina Eger

Household of Nicholas Ludwig Count Zinzendorf

He is married to Countess Erdmuth Dorothea Reuss.

They got married in the year 1722, he was 21 years old.

Notes about Nicholas Ludwig Count Zinzendorf

JONATHAN CUSTER (2), died in Berks County, Pa. 1822. Eve Rosaimah (Ludwig) Custer, his

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wife, died also in Berks County, Pa. in the year 1832. It is said she was a descendant of Nicholas Ludwig, Count Zinzendorf the noted hymn writer . Jonathan Custer ( 2 ) and wife are buried in Amityville Cemetery at Amityville Pennsylvania .

 

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Zin'zen-dorf, von, [Ger. pron. fon ts!nt'sen-doRr,] (NICOLAUS LuDWiG,) CoUNT, a German theologian, dis- tinguished as the founder or restorer of the sect of Moravians or Herrnhuters, was born at Dresden on the 26th of May, 1700. He was a son of Georg Ludwig, chamberlain and minister of Augustus, Elector of Saxony, who died while this son was an infant. He was educated under the care of his grandmother, the Baroness von Gersdorf, a friend of JaUob Spener. In 1710 he was sent to the Seminary of Halle, where he became a pupil of Francke and a convert to pietism. He devoted himself to religious studies and duties, and formed at Halle a mystical society called the "Order of the Grain of Mustard." About 1716 he removed from Halle to the University of Wittenberg, where he studied law and remained three years. He had received from nature a lively imagination, the faculty of eloquence, and great personal beauty and dignity. His religious tenets were similar to those of the Lutherans. In 1 7 19 he travelled in Holland and France, to obtam information about the state of the churches, and perhaps to exchange ideas with persons eminent for piety. During this tour he preached at various places, and was in the habit of advocating the truths of the gospel in private houses and in worldly society. He would have entered into holy orders if his relatives had not interposed. In 1722 he married the countess Erdmuth Dorothea Reuss, and went to reside at Bertholdsdorf, in Lusatia. A few members of the Moravian Church, driven by persecution from their native country, sought refuge with him in 1722, and were permitted to form a settlement on his estate. This settlement received the name of Herrnhut, the " Lord's guard," or the " Watch of the Lord," and was joined by many other emigrants, Zinzendorf entered into fellowship with them, became their patron, and acquired great influence over them. They professed a conformity to the doctrines of the Lutheran Church. To propagate his princij^les, he published a religious periodical, called the " German Socrates," and numerous other works. Missionaries were sent out from Herrnhut to America in 1732, and colonies were planted in various parts of Europe. "Although his own conduct," says Southey, "was more uniformly discreet than that of any other founder of a Christian community, (it would be wronging the Moravian Brethren to designate them as a sect,) he was involved in difficulties by the indiscretion of others and the jealousy of the government under which he lived. He was therefore ordered to sell his estates, and after- wards banished." (" Life of John Wesley," vol. i.) About 1734 he became a tutor in a family at Stralsund, that he might pass through the regular examination as a candidate in divinity, and was ordained at Tubingen as a minister of the Lutheran Church. He was banished from Saxony in 1736, after which he travelled extensively. He gained the favour of Frederick William I. of Prussia, who caused him to be ordained a bishop in 1737 W ^'s own chaplain. In 173S he met John Wesley in Germany. "They parted," says Southey, "with a less favourable opinion of each other than each had entertained before the meeting." Zinzendorf visited Pennsylvania in 1742, preached for some time at Germantown, and established congregations of his disciples at Bethlehem and Nazareth. He returned to Europe in 1743, and was permitted in 1747 to become a resident of llerrnhut. In 1749 he visited England, and obtained an act of Parliament authorizing the establishment of Moravian missions in North America. He wrote numerous hymns, which are used in the Moravian churches. In his early writings he gave offence by expressions which seemed to border on indecency, and which he afterwards condemned. On this subject

Southey remarks, " Seeing the offensiveness, if not the danger, of the loathsome and impious extravagances into which they had been betrayed, they corrected their books and their language ; and from that time they have continued to live without reproach." "The Moravian doctrine," says Goethe, "had something magical, in that it appeared to continue, or rather to perpetuate, the condition of those first times, \i.e. the apostolic times.] It connected its origin with them, and had never perished, but had only wound its way through the world by unnoticed shoots and tendrils, until a single germ took root under the protection of a pious and eminent man, once more to expand wide over the world." (" Autobiography," book xv.) Zinzendorf died at Herrnhut in May, 1760. Among his works is an account of his early travels, entitled " The Journey of Atticus through the World." He had several children. See Varnhagen von Ense, " Leben des Grafen von Zinzendorf," in his " Denkmale," vol. v. ; Spangenkerg, " Leben des Grafen von Zinzendorf," 1775 ; (S. Jackson's English version of the same," 1838;) J. G. MOller, " Leben des N. von Zinzendorf:" Vrrbeck, " Leben des Grafen von Zinzendorf," 184s ; F. Bovet, " Le Comte de Zinzendorf," 1865.

 

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