Henrietta Catharina, Baroness von Gersdorff

Unlike most girls of the time, she was trained in multiple disciplines, and even as a youth she was recognized by her contemporaries for her German and Latin poetry.

At the age of 24. in 1672, she married Nicolas, Baron von Gersdorff (1629–1702), governor of the Saxon Upper Lusatia.

She supported the movement called Pietism and the Saxon Court preacher Philipp Jakob Spener.

[citation needed] Following her husband's death in 1702, she withdrew to her Grosshennersdorf estate in the mountains of eastern Saxony,[1] where she died.

Her home was received many visitors, including Lutheran missionaries to the Danish overseas colonies of Tranquebar and Greenland.

Plaque on the wall of the Lutheran church in Großhennersdorf commemorating the place of eternal rest of Henriette von Gersdorff