Count Zinzendorf - The Young Count and Gross-Hennersdorf

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Young Count	Germany
Painting's Influence	Worldwide Missions
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Reuss's Castle	Moravian Education
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Count Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf

The Young Count and Gross-Hennersdorf

This is a portrait of the young imperial Count Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf in the dress appropriate to his noble status. His father died when he was just six weeks of age. In the Fall of 1700, he moved with his mother, Charlotte Justine (1684-1763), to the family castle shown here below at Gross-Hennersdorf. After his mother remarried and moved to Berlin with her husband, Prussian field marshal Dubislav Gneomar von Natzmer, the boy was left in the sole care of his grandmother, Henriette Katharina von Gersdorf (1648-1726), a Pietist who opened the castle for other Pietists to meet for prayer and Bible reading. She was considered a “learned and eminent lady (who)

shaped the development of the young count decisively.” It was she who produced a lasting influence on his spiritual life. At ten years of age (1710) Zinzendorf was educated at the Halle Paedagogium, a center of Pietism, where he was taught by August Francke.

Later he studied law at the University of Wittenberg but spent more of his time studying theological matters than law.