Benigna Marie Reuss zu Ebersdorf

Benigna Marie Reuss zu Ebersdorf (born December 15, 1695 in Ebersdorf , † July 31, 1751 in Pottiga ) was Countess Reuss von Lobenstein from the Ebersdorf line and a German hymn poet.

Life

Benigna Marie was a daughter of Count Heinrich X. Reuss zu Ebersdorf (1662–1711) and Countess Erdmuthe Benigna zu Solms-Laubach . She grew up in Ebersdorf and was brought up strictly pietistic. After the death of her parents, she moved to Pottiga.

Here she composed a number of hymns in the spirit of Zinzendorf , who was married to her younger sister Erdmuthe Dorothea . However, she rejected the Zinzendorf Brothers Congregation and regretted the split in the Protestant church that this brought about.

She was a close friend of the constitutional lawyer Johann Jacob Moser ; she died unmarried in Pottiga at the age of 55.

literature

Georg Brückner : Erdmuthe Dorothea . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 193 f (mentioned there on p. 194).
Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : Benigna Maria Countess of Reuss-Ebersdorf. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 499-500. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

personal data
SURNAME	Reuss zu Ebersdorf, Benigna Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German hymn poet
DATE OF BIRTH	December 15, 1695
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ebersdorf
DATE OF DEATH	July 31, 1751
Place of death	Pottiga