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Early Herrnhut Early Herrnhut
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Unity of Brethren Unity of Brethren
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Zinzendorf Zinzendorf
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Growth and Expansion Growth and Expansion
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Moravian Communities Moravian Communities
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Material Culture Material Culture
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After Zinzendorf’s Death After Zinzendorf’s Death
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The Archival Record The Archival Record
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Notes Notes
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Bibliography Bibliography
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6 The Moravians
Get accessPaul Peucker holds a doctorate in early modern history from the University of Utrecht. He is Archivist at the Moravian Archives in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Previously he was Director of the Unity Archives in Herrnhut, Germany. He is the managing editor of the Journal of Moravian History and author of A Time of Sifting: Mystical Marriage and the Crisis of Moravian Piety in the Eighteenth Century (Penn State University Press, 2016) and Herrnhut: The Formation of a Moravian Community, 1722–1732 (Penn State University Press, 2022).
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Published:21 September 2022
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Abstract
The Moravian Church originated in 1722, when Protestant refugees from Moravia founded the town of Herrnhut on the estate of Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf. Herrnhut developed into an independent religious community, only loosely connected to the local Lutheran parish church under the leadership of Zinzendorf, who was not only their secular lord but also their spiritual leader. This “renewed Moravian Church” quickly spread through the European continent, Britain, and North America. Moravian missionaries went to the enslaved in the Caribbean, to the Inuit in Greenland and Labrador, to the American Indians, and to the Khoi in southern Africa. Within a few decades, Herrnhut had become the center of one of the significant religious transatlantic movements of the eighteenth century, attracting Germans, Dutch, English, Scandinavians, American Indians, and enslaved men and women in the Caribbean.
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