1700 - 1756 Person Name: Countess E. D. Zinzendorf, 1700-1756 Hymnal Number: 544 Author of "Reach out thy scepter, King of love" in Hymnal and Liturgies of the Moravian Church Zinzendorf, Erdmuth Dorothea, Countess von, née Countess of Reuss-Ebersdorf, b. Nov. 7, 1700, at Ebersdorf, married Count N. L. von Zinzendorf, Sep. 7, 1722, and d. June 19, 1756, at Herrnhut. [J. T. M.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Erdmuth Dorothea, Gräfin von Zinzendorf