David Nitschmann der Bischof
David Nitschmann der Bischof (David Nitschmann the Bishop, December 18, 1695/1696, Zauchtenthal/Suchdol nad Odrou, Northern Moravia - October 8, 1772, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA) was with Johann Leonhard Dober one of the two first missionaries of the Moravian Brethren (Herrnhuter Brüder) in the West Indies in 1732, and the first Bishop of the Renewed Unitas Fratrum, the Moravian Church or Evangelische Brüdergemeine.
In 1735 in Berlin, he was consecrated the first Bishop of the Renewed Unitas Fratrum, the Herrnhuter Brüder or Moravians by Daniel Ernst Jablonski, Grandson of John Amos Comenius, the last Bishop of the Ancient Unitas Fratrum.
He landed at Philadelphia, in 1741 and was instrumental in the founding of Bethlehem, PA where he died in 1772.[1][2]
Nitschmann traveled with John Wesley and helped to found the mission at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.[3][4]
References[]
- ^ http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/bucks/history/local/davis/davis38.txt
- ^ Rev David Nitschmann at Find a Grave
- ^ [1] The Missions of the Church of the United Brethren, pages 241-246.
- ^ [2] Memoir of David Nitschmann, Sr.
External links[]
- (Papers of David Nitschmann (Bishop) (PDF)
- Klaus-Gunther Wesseling (1998). "Zinzendorf und Pottendorf, Nikolaus Ludwig Reichsgraf und Herr von". In Bautz, Traugott (ed.). Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). 14. Herzberg: Bautz. cols. 509–547. ISBN 3-88309-073-5.
- The Moravians in Georgia, Chapter 6
- https://web.archive.org/web/20091027152737/http://www.geocities.com/janet_ariciu/Linebaugh.html
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- 1695 births
- 1772 deaths
- 18th-century Moravian bishops
- Moravian Church missionaries
- Czech people of the Moravian Church
- German Protestant missionaries
- Moravian-German people
- Protestant missionaries in the United States Virgin Islands
- People from Suchdol nad Odrou
- Christian biography stubs