Zinzendorf, NICOLAUS LUDWIG, COUNT VON, the founder of the Moravian Brethren, or Herrnhuters, was born at Dresden, 26th May 1700, and died at Herrnhut, 9th May 1760. He wrote sermons, hymnals, catechisms, and a number of controversial and devotional works.
See the article MORAVIANS; also the German Lives by Spangenberg (1773-75), Schrautenbach (1851), Verbeek (1845), Varnhagen von Ense in his Biographische Denkmale; Tholuck in Vermischte Schriften; also Bovet, Le Comte de Zinzendorf (1860; trans. as The Banished Count, 1865), and Burkhart (1876).