Zinzendorf castle
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Zinzendorf, Count Nicholas Ludwig von ()
Count Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf (), a Silesian Pietist nobleman, renewer of the Moravian brotherhood, b. 26 May , in Dresden, Germany.
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Although by profession he was a legal adviser at the court of the King of Saxony in Dresden until , his primary interest was the kingdom of God and the saving of men. He was ordained a Lutheran minister at Tübingen in Banned from Saxony in because of his "separatistic" activities, he established his headquarters first in western Germany in the Wetterau, then in London, and at last on his own estate in the village of Herrnhut.
The chief interest of Zinzendorf's life, however, was the Moravian Brotherhood (Unitas Fratrum). In he gave the pitiful remnants of the Bohemian Brethren, fleeing from their homeland, asylum on his family estate of Berthelsdorf.
The village that was built for them was named Herrnhut (i.e., The Lord's Protection). In the Brethren, some in number, were reorganized, with Zinzendorf a
