Draft:Anna Maria Lawatsch
Anna Maria Lawatsch | |
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 portrait by Johann Valentin Haidt | |
| Born | November 17, 1712  Moravia |
| Died | January 20, 1760 (aged 47) Bethlehem |
| Occupation | Hymnwriter, choir director, diarist |
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| Family | Gottlieb Demuth, Sr. |
Anna Maria Demuth Lawatsch (November 17, 1712 – January 20, 1760)[1] was a Moravian eldress and hymnwriter.
Anna Maria Demunt was born on November 17, 1712 in Karlsdorf, a village in Moravia in the present day Czech Republic, the daughter of Tobias Demuth and Rosina Tonn Demuth. Her father died when she was three years old. Members of the Moravian Church were persecuted at the time and her mother and sister were imprisoned, so she and other members of her family fled to Herrnhut, a village founded by Moravian Church refugees. In 1733, she became governess to Heinrich XXXI Count Reuss, young son of Heinrich XXIX, Count of Reuss-Ebersdorf, and the next year governess to Anna and Maria Agnes von Zinzendorf, daughters of Moravian bishop Nicolaus Zinzendorf.[1][2][3]
Anna Maria Lawatsch died on 20 January 1760 in Bethlehem.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Snodgrass, Mary Ellen (2018). American colonial women and their art: a chronological encyclopedia. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-4422-7097-8.
- ^ "Anna Maria Lawatsch (1712-1760): 250th Anniversary of her Death" (PDF). This Month in Moravian History (50). January / February 2010.
{{cite journal}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Rechcígl, Jr., Miloslav (2000-11-03). "The Demuth Family from Moravia and Their Descendants | Society of Arts & Sciences". www.svu2000.org. Retrieved 2025-01-07.