Henrietta von Hayn (1724-1782)

Title: Henrietta von Hayn (1724-1782) See all items with this value
Creator: Von Hayn, Henriette Mary Louise, 1724-1782
Publisher: Moravian Lives Project
Date: 1782 See all items with this value
Type: Text
Format: image/pdf
Description: Autobiographical and communal memoir of Henriette Mary Louise von Hayn (familiarly known as Louisel), a prominent Moravian deaconess, educator, and celebrated hymnwriter. Born into a noble family in Nassau, she describes her vivid childhood spiritual experiences, her dramatic escape to Marienborn and Herrnhag in 1744 against her parents' initial wishes, and her protective spiritual adoption by Count von Zinzendorf. The text highlights her 16-year administration over the regional Moravian Girls' Institutional Oeconomy (including its stay at Castle Hennersdorf) and her subsequent 16-year tenure as the head Choir Helper for the Single Sisters at Herrnhut. The closing narrative details her synodal participation, her creative hymnody, her long-term battle with a chronic lung cough, and her death from dropsical complications in August 1782.
Subject: Von Hayn, Henriette Mary Louise, 1724-1782
Moravians--Biography
Hymnwriters--Germany
Deaconesses--Moravian Church
Herrnhut (Germany)--History--18th century
Biographies See all items with this value
Identifier: Ful/3/77
Place: Fulneck, UK See all items with this value
Language: eng
Extent: 16
Rights Holder: Fulneck Moravian Archives, Fulneck, UK