Graf von zinzendorf biography of michael

Zinzendorf, Nikolaus Ludwig, Graf von nēˈkōlous lo͝otˈvĭkh gräf fən tsĭnˈtsəndôrf [key], –, German churchman, patron and bishop of the refounded Moravian Church, b.

Zinzendorf is celebrated as the founder of the Moravian community of brethren, or Unitas Fratrum, emanating from Herrnhut. He was a member of the high aristocracy who dedicated all his energies to a faith which he himself helped to shape, influenced by pietism, Lutheranism, and the romanticism and enlightenment thinking of his period.

He was the patron and diplomat behind the emerging utopian community at Herrnhut. Zinzendorf attended the school run by the influential August Hermann Francke at Halle, who is credited for the model of the later Volksschulen public schools , and who founded the Halle Mission in which sent the first Protestant missionaries overseas.

They set up missions in the Danish colony at the Coromandel coast Malabar in India in , an undertaking widely considered dangerous, adventurous and useless. Zinzendorf later met one of these pioneer missionaries to India.

Nikolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, Graf von (nē´kōlous lŏŏt´vĬkh gräf fən tsĬn´tsəndôrf), –, German churchman, patron and bishop of the refounded Moravian Church, b.

Halle was a high seat of pietism, notwithstanding that its university founded in hosted the rationalists Christian Wolff expelled from there by his colleagues and Siegmund Baumgarten. Halle was also an early seat of pietist orientalism under Christian Benedikt Michaelis. With a fellow student from the Francke college, Zinzendorf sought to emulate the English bible societies Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, formed in and Society for Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, formed in German Missionaries in Australia.

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