Career
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, Pennsylvania where he died in 1772.