Henriette Catharina von Gersdorff

Henrietta Catharina, Baroness von Gersdorff was a German noblewoman, an author Baroque Christian poetry, an advocate of Pietism and also a supporter of the beginnings of the Moravian Church. She was the maternal grandmother of Count Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf.

Occupation

writer, poet, pietist, hymnwriter

Citizenship

Germany

Born

October 6, 1648

Died

March 6, 1726, March 5, 1726