Anna Ovena Hoyer

She belonged to the Schwenkfeldians (a branch founded by Nicolaus Knutzen Teting called Brethren in Christ (Brüder in Christo)) and was a critic of Lutheranism.

She inherited the manor Hoyersworth (a part of today's Oldenswort) in the North Sea coastal marshes at Hermann Hoyer's death on 13 September 1622.

Her Gespräch eines Kindes mit seiner Mutter, written for her children and published in 1628, was reissued in 1698 by Phillipp Jacob Spener without naming the actual author.

Another new edition entitled The Way of True Piety in the Following Spiritual Conversation of a Child with His Mother: Presented by a Christian Matron appeared in 1720.

Her Annae Ovenae Hoijers Geistliche und Weltliche Poemata (Spiritual and Secular Poetry), on the other hand, was banned the following year.