David Nitschmann der Bischof

David Nitschmann der Bischof (David Nitschmann the Bishop, December 18, 1695/96, Suchdol nad Odrou, Moravia – October 8, 1772, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) was with Johann Leonhard Dober one of the two first missionaries of the Moravian Brethren in the West Indies in 1732, and the first Bishop of the Renewed Unitas Fratrum, the Moravian Church.

David Nitschmann the Bishop
Nitschmann's tombstone in Bethlehem

Life

In 1735 in Berlin, he was consecrated the first Bishop of the Renewed Unitas Fratrum, 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, Pennsylvania where he died in 1772.[1]

Nitschmann traveled with John Wesley and helped to found the mission at Bethlehem.[2][3]

References
  1. http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/bucks/history/local/davis/davis38.txt
  2. https://books.google.com/books?id=0XsoAAAAYAAJ&dq=john+leonard+dober&pg=PA241 The Missions of the Church of the United Brethren, pages 241-246.
  3. http://bdhp.moravian.edu/personal_papers/memoirs/dnitschmann/dnitschmann.html Memoir of David Nitschmann, Sr.
  • (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). Vol. 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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