Born: November 24, 1715, Kun­ne­wald (near Ful­nek), Mo­ra­via.

Died: May 21, 1760, Herrn­hut, Mo­ra­via.

Sister of hymn­ist Jo­hann Nitsch­mann, An­na be­came a Un­i­ty-El­der of the Mo­ra­vi­ans in 1730, and joined with An­na Do­ber in found­ing the Jung­frau­e­nbund of the un­mar­ried sis­ters at Herrn­hut. In 1737, she be­came a com­pan­ion to Zin­zen­dorf’s daugh­ter, the Count­ess Be­nig­na, and ac­com­pa­nied her in 1737 to Eng­land. In the sum­mer of 1740, she went with her fa­ther, Da­vid Nitsch­mann, to Amer­i­ca, ar­riv­ing in Penn­syl­van­ia in De­cem­ber 1740. Af­ter the ar­riv­al of Zinzendorf and the Count­ess Be­nig­na in 1741, she joined with them in work among the In­di­ans, re­turn­ing to Ger­ma­ny in 1743. Af­ter the death of his first wife, Zin­zen­dorf mar­ried An­na at Ber­thels­dorf in 1757.

Sources

Hymns

1. Ich bin das arme Würm­lein dein
   • My Savior, That I Without Thee
2. Mein König deine Liebe
   • I Thirst, Thou Wounded Lamb of God