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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 Friedrich 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
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