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Anna Caritas Nitschmann, Countess von Zinzendorf und Pottendorf, (24 November 1715, Kunín, Moravia – 21 May 1760, Herrnhut, Lusatia) was a Moravian Brethren missionary (Missionarin), lyrical poet, and the second wife of Count Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf.
Anna Nitschmann (* 24. November 1715 in Kunewald, Mähren; † 21. Mai 1760 in Herrnhut) gehörte der Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine, für deren Organisation und Mission sie in leitender Funktion tätig war, an. Seit 1757 war sie die zweite Ehefrau von Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf .
Anna Nitschmann Society. The society is named in honor of one of America’s first philanthropists, Anna Nitschmann. Anna understood the importance of education for all and was instrumental in raising funds to establish the Girls' School that would become Moravian University.
Anna Nitschmann’s memoir did not appear in print until 80 years after her death. The handwritten copies in the Archives have been heavily marked out to erase her leadership role in the Moravian church of her day. But many letters still survive which document her role and influence.
The time had come to select a leader, a "chief eldress" for the women in the bustling community of Moravians at Herrnhut (in what was East Germany). Four names were put on slips of paper. One was Anna Nitschmann. Only 14 years old, she had already demonstrated leadership among the single women.
This paper explores the lives, thought, and contributions of important seventeenth and eighteenth century female Pietists such as Anna Maria Van Schurman (1607-1678) Johanna Eleonora Petersen (1644-1724), Anna Nitschmann (1715-1760) and many other.
One of those who were deeply affected by the spiritual awakening was Anna Nitschmann, who was then just twelve years old. She dedicated her life to the Lord's service and immediately began organizing the young women of the community into a kind of club for worship and ministry.
