Christian Renatus von Zinzendorf
Christian Renatus von Zinzendorf and Reichsgraf Pottendorf ( born September 19, 1727 Herrnhut, † May 28 1752 in London ) was a German hymn writer.
Life
Renatus von Zinzendorf was a son of Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf and his wife Erdmuthe Dorothea, née Countess Reuss to Ebersdorf. He received a pietistic upbringing and was sent in 1736, accompanied by Johann Nitsch man to study theology in Jena. There he lived in the Moravian church -affiliated group of revivalists who ran a trivialized Christ mysticism. In 1739, Duke Wilhelm Heinrich refer the Christel economy of the country. Zinzendorf continued his education at the seminary brothers Mr Hague and toured as a companion of his father Livonia.
Since 1744 Christel Graf worked as assistant to his father and was appointed choir nurse the single brethren. In 1747 he made his move from the castle Marie Born ( in Eckhartshausen in Hesse ) by Mr Hague and before a trip of his father, he was ordained in 1748 to the office of elder of the single brethren. During this time Zinzendorf operating an excessive mystical cult of baby Seitenhöhlchen, Luv, little fool and Bräutel, so his father in 1749 abberief him again and the community in a punitive letter forbade the non-biblical diminutive cults. After discussions with the father, who looked at him as his successor, Zinzendorf renounced his sentimental pieties. He called in August 1750 a "covenant for the torture of God" to life and wrote in this, prescribed by his father "comfort period" numerous " purified " poems. He died after a trip to England, of consumption.
Works
Zinzendorf is the author of several songs to the Passion of Christ, the entrance to the Moravian hymnal from 1735, the London hymnal from 1753 /54 and further Protestant hymnals have found.
- On! close to her ' Jesus verbund'ne heart
- Blutge suffering of my own friend
- The we find ourselves here this together
- For us, my lord went to Todesnöthen
- Martyrdom of God, who can forget your