Benigna Marie of Reuss-Ebersdorf

Benigna Marie of Reuss-Ebersdorf (15 December 1695 in Ebersdorf – 31 July 1751 in Pottiga) was a Protestant German hymn writer and a titular Countess of Reuss.

Benigna Marie was a daughter of Count Heinrich X of Reuss-Ebersdorf (1662-1711) and Countess Benigna Erdmuthe of Solms-Laubach (1670-1732).

She grew up in Ebersdorf and was educated in a strictly pietistic fashion.

Here she wrote a series of hymns in the spirit of Zinzendorf, who was married with her younger sister Erdmuthe Dorothea.

She was a close friend of Johann Jakob Moser, and died unmarried in Pottiga, at the 55 years.