(Nicholas Lewis), count, was the noted founder of the German religious sect called Moravians, or Herrnhuters, or, as they pretend, the reformer of that society. From his own narrative it appears, that when he came of age in 1721, his thoughts were wholly bent on gathering together a little society of believers, among whom he might live, and who should entirely employ themselves in exercises of devotion under him. He accordingly purchased an estate at Bertholdsdorf in Upper Lusatia, where being joined by some followers, he gave the curacy of the village to a man of his own complexion; and Bertholdsdorf soon became talked of for a new mode of piety. One Christian David, a carpenter, brought a few protelytes from Moravia: they began a new town about half a league from the village, where count Zinzendorff fixed his residence among them, and where great numbers of Moravians flocked and established themselves under his protection: so that in 1732 their number amounted to 600. An adjacent hill, called the Huthberg, gave occasion to these colonists to call their new settlement Huth des Herrn, and afterward Herrnhuth; which may be interpreted "The guard or protection of the Lord:" and from this the whole sect have taken their name. The count spared neither pains nor art to propagate his opinions; he went himself all over Europe, and at least twice to America; and sent his missionaries throughout the world. Count Zinzendorff died in 1760. Those who wish to know more of the Moravian tenets may consult Rimini's account of them, translated in 1753. See UNITED BRETHREN.