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Benigna Marie of Reuss-Ebersdorf (15 December 1695 in Ebersdorf – 31 July 1751 in Pottiga) was a Protestant German hymn writer and a titular Countess of Reuss. She was a member of the Reuss-Ebersdorf line from the Reuss-Lobenstein.




Life


Benigna Marie was a daughter of Count Heinrich X of Reuss-Ebersdorf (1662-1711) and Countess Benigna Erdmuthe of Solms-Laubach (1670-1732). She grew up in Ebersdorf and was educated in a strictly pietistic fashion. After her parents' death, she moved to Pottiga.
Here she wrote a series of hymns in the spirit of Zinzendorf, who was married with her younger sister Erdmuthe Dorothea. However, she rejected Zinzendorf's Moravian Church and schism in the Evangelical church that this caused.
She was a close friend of Johann Jakob Moser, and died unmarried in Pottiga, at the 55 years.




References


Georg Brückner (1877), "Erdmuthe Dorothea", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 6, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 193–194 (mentioned at p. 194)
Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz (1975). "Benigna Maria Gräfin von Reuß-Ebersdorf". In Bautz, Friedrich Wilhelm (ed.). Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). Vol. 1. Hamm: Bautz. cols. 499–500. ISBN 3-88309-013-1.

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Benigna Marie of Reuss-Ebersdorf
• Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf
• Heinrich XXIV, Count Reuss of Ebersdorf
• Heinrich X, Count of Reuss-Ebersdorf
• 1695
• Imperial County of Reuss
• 1690s
• Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
• Descendants of Queen Victoria
• 1700s (decade)