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Herrnhut

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Herrnhut (hĕrn`ht), town, Saxony, SE Germany. It was founded (1722) by Graf von Zinzendorf Zinzendorf, Nikolaus Ludwig, Graf von (nē`kōlous l
..... Click the link for more information.  as a colony of Moravian Brethren (see Moravian Church Moravian Church, Renewed Church of the Brethren, or Unitas Fratrum
..... Click the link for more information. ), and is today a Moravian center with archives, a publishing house, and a museum.


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27) There also was a group of Herrnhuter (descendants of the Herrnhut Community founded in 1727 by Count Nicholas of Zinzendorf in present-day Saxony) there who had survived rationalism and who gathered around the merchant Tobias Kiessling, who, though himself not actually a Herrnhuter, supported Protestant Christians in the Eastern European Habsburg area with money, Bibles, tracts, and moral support.
Wilhelm Loehe in the context of the nineteenth century by Schwarz, Hans / Currents in Theology and Mission
Since the Moravians had exerted such a powerful influence on his religious life, Wesley spent some time at their headquarters at Herrnhut, Germany but finally decided against joining them.
What makes a Methodist? by Whalen, William J. / U.S. Catholic
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