ZINZENDORF, NIKOLAUS LUDWIG, Count of. — Born on 26 May 1700 in Dresden, died at Herrnhut on 9 May 1760. His father died shortly after his birth, and his mother, having remarried, entrusted the young Z. to the care of his grandmother and an aunt, both Pietists and personal friends of Spener (see PIETISM).
Under their guidance, the boy was raised in piety and at the age of ten entered the College of Halle, directed by the renowned pedagogue and Pietist A. Hermann Francke, where with other companions he founded a society for personal sanctification and the spread of the Gospel. In 1717 he moved to the University of Wittenberg. He wished to devote himself to theology, but his family opposed this, believing it unsuitable for a German nobleman to become a mere minister and preacher. He therefore applied himself to the study of law, though he did not abandon private theological study. After completing his studies in 1719, he traveled through Holland, France, Switzerland, and various parts of Germany.
ZINZENDORF Nikolaus Ludwig — ZIQQURATU
Pontif.), as is evident from the so-called Einhardi annales (ad a. 824: ed. G. H. Pertz, in MGH, Scriptores, I [1826], p. 212), from the Vita Walae (28: ed. Pertz, ibid., II [1829], p. 545), and from the Vita Hludovici imp. by Thegan (30: ibid., p. 595). One candidate was supported by the exercitus (nobility), the other by the Familia S. Petri (ecclesiastical bureaucracy); the effective intervention of the monk Wala secured the triumph of the first, who became Eugenius II. The other did not persist, and the sources do not even record his name, which is nevertheless mentioned—on what grounds is unknown—by O. Panvinio (Romani Pontifices et Cardinales S. R. E. ab eisdem a Leone IX ad Paulum III... creati, Venice 1557, p. 45; Chronicon ecclesiasticum, Louvain 1573, p. 72).