{"id":9309,"date":"2020-07-22T10:14:59","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T08:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.sorabicon.de\/the-herrnhut-memoirs\/"},"modified":"2023-09-28T15:09:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T13:09:06","slug":"the-herrnhut-memoirs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www1.sorabicon.de\/en\/the-herrnhut-memoirs\/","title":{"rendered":"The Herrnhut memoirs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cthe Wendish brothers\u201d. The Sorbian everyday life in the Herrnhut memoirs of the Eighteenth century. A collection of sources and documentation<\/h2>\n\n

Edited by Lubina Mahling<\/em><\/p>\n

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First page of Agnes Sauer’s memoir, who died in Niesky in 1783. (Unit\u00e4tsarchiv Herrnhut)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

The autobiographic memoirs of the \u201cUnity of Brethren<\/a>\u201d from Herrnhut hold a great treasure for Sorbian historical research. They make the everyday life of the Sorbian population in Upper and Lower Lusatia in the Eighteenth century tangible. Whether reports about backwoods schools and years of service, experiences of war and diseases, servants\u2019 and journeymen\u2019s trips, reports about a soldier\u2019s life or decisions to go to foreign countries as missionaries<\/a> \u2013 the memoirs of the Sorbian members of the Unity contain a multitude of life plans and journeys through life. At the same time, they show the profound effect of pietism<\/a> in Sorbian Lusatia. In this portal selected biographies of the Unity\u2019s members of Sorbian origin or of those who lived and worked in the Sorbian diaspora are made accessible. With their variety of topics and voices they draw a wide panorama of Eighteenth century Lusatia beyond erudite discourses and bourgeois culture.<\/p>\n\n

This will take you to the edited memoirs<\/a><\/p>\n\n

Accompanying texts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n