page_title: Johann Ludvig Zinn
section_title: Personal life and lagacy
hierarchical_section_title: Johann Ludvig Zinn / Personal life and lagacy
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Johanne Charlotte Sophie Zinn, née Preisler (1754-1833), wife of J.L. Zinn
context_page_description: Johann Ludvig Zinn was a German-Danish merchant who founded a trading house in Copenhagen in 1765 and died as one of the wealthiest men in the city. Zinn lived in the Zinn House at Kvæsthusgade 3 in Copenhagen. His daughter, Sophie Dorthea Zinn, has written about her father in her memoirs, Grandma' Condma's Confessions.
context_section_description: Zinn married Johanna Charlotta Sophia Preisler (15 June 1754 - 3 September 1833) on 15 September 1771. She was a daughter of professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Johan Martin Preisler and Anna S. Schuckmann (1720-1800). His wife bore him four children, two sons and two daughters.
   
  The family lived in the Zinn House at Kvæsthusgade 3. Zinn was naturalized in 1793 and donated a ballot box in silver to the city of Copenahgen to show his gratitude for the way he had been received.
  He died a very wealthy man on 3 February 1802 and is buried in Frederick's German Church. His two sons, Carl Ludvig Zinn (1777-1808) and Johann Friederich Zinn (1779-1838) took on the company after their father's death. In 1809 it was the second-largest company in Copenhagen based on tax income. Carl Ludvig Zinn bought Vodroffsgård in 1803 but died in 1808.The company was later passed on to Johann Friederichs Zinn 's son Ludvig Maximilian Zinn (1808– 68). His sister, Emma Sophie Amalia, married the composer Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann.
  Zinn's daughter, Sophie Dorthea Zinn, has written about her father in her memoirs, Grandma' Condma's Confessions (Grandmamas Bekjendelser).
caption: Johanne Charlotte Sophie Zinn painted by Erik Pauelsen in 1789
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