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Herrnhuter

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Herrn´hut`er    (hẽrn´hŭ`ẽr; G. hĕrn´hŌ`ẽr)
n.1.(Eccl. Hist.) One of the Moravians; - so called from the settlement of Herrnhut (the Lord's watch) made, about 1722, by the Moravians at the invitation of Nicholas Lewis, count of Zinzendorf, upon his estate in the circle of Bautzen.
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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
 
 
 
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