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David Nitschmann was born on December 27, 1696 at Zauchtenthal, Moravia (now Czech Republic). He was the son of George Nitschmann, a pious and well-to-do citizen, in the line of a family that had given leaders to the Ancient Unitas Fratrum for over a century. The son possessed a strain of evangelical enthusiasm that, at an early age, brought him into conflict with his environment and with the pious but conforming habits of his father.
In 1722 Nitschmann and four like-minded young men made the acquaintance of Christian David who had persuaded Count Nicholas von Zinzendorf to found a refuge for the persecuted remnant of the Ancient Brethren's Church on his estate at Berthelsdorf, Saxony. In May 1724 these five young men, outcasts from their homes, escaped by devious mountain passes to the Saxon haven and were present when the cornerstone of the first building of Herrnhut was laid. For a year Nitschmann remained in this growing asylum and learned the carpenter's trade. Then he visited his home as an evangelist and persuaded, among others, his invalid father and his uncle, also a David Nitschmann, to abandon their homes and enter the new community, and they were all present in 1727 when the Renewed Unitas Fratrum or Moravian Church was formed.
Count Zinzendorf, recognizing the inherent power of the young man, promptly made use of him for the furtherance of evangelistic work. He was sent to various courts and centers in Europe, going as far as Denmark, Russia, and England. It was at David Nitschmann's instigation that the official center for Moravian work was placed at London, just at the moment when English supremacy in the trade world was becoming an assured fact. And it was this quiet, practical-minded carpenter who realized that the hopes of Herrnhut could be brought to fruition by attaching them to the power of England.
In August 1732 he was sent with Leonard Dober to establish a mission among the black slaves of St. Thomas. This work having been accomplished he returned to Europe in 1733.
In 1735 he was consecrated bishop. Zinzendorf's plans for the evangelization of the North American Indians and for the unification of the migrant Germans of Pennsylvania opened with the attempt at Savannah, Georgia, in 1735.
In March 1736 he went to Pennsylvania and then sailed for Europe to meet Zinzendorf in England. For the next two years he was constantly in motion from country to country seeking support for the Pennsylvania plan.
In 1740, accompanied by his uncle, David Nitschmann the elder, he started for America to establish centers for the evangelization of the Indians.
The Savannah settlement was abandoned and the entire company proceeded to Pennsylvania. Nitschmann bought five hundred acres at the confluence of the Lehigh River and the Monocacy Creek in Pennsylvania, and on this tract David Nitschmann the elder began, with the rest of the party, the erection of the town of Bethlehem. From this period on, the headquarters of the sect at Bethlehem was entirely in the hands of Nitschmann. He was unquestionably the founder of all the Moravian work in America, though his uncle, because he held title and directed most of the physical operation, has often mistakenly been called the founder of Bethlehem. In 1744 the administration of the American work was given to Bishop Augustus Gottlieb Spangenberg and Nitschmann started for Europe. His vessel was captured by a Spanish frigate and he was carried to St. Sebastian as a prisoner, not reaching Herrnhut until 1745. He renewed his organization work but before 1750 he had returned to America, and between this time and 1756 he was constantly in motion, making over forty journeys across the Atlantic. His last voyage took him to Pennsylvania in 1755.
At the age of sixty-five he returned to Bethlehem where he lived in retirement until his death in 1772.
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On November 12, 1726 he married Rosina Schindler. His first wife died in 1753, he later married Mary Barbara (Leinbach) Martin, widow of Frederick Martin.
