Английская Википедия:Christian David

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Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox person Christian David (1692–1751) was a German Lutheran missionary, writer and hymnwriter. He travelled as a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine, the Moravian Church, to Greenland and to Native Americans. He is known as the author of hymn stanzas that were included in "Sonne der Gerechtigkeit" in 1932.

David was raised in the Catholic Church. He worked as a carpenter and a soldier. He was impressed by the pietist movement and converted in 1714.Шаблон:Sfn In 1722, he helped refugees from Moravia to escape the counter reformation to Saxony. There, he was a co-founder of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine,Шаблон:Sfn working closely with of Nikolaus Ludwig Graf von Zinzendorf.Шаблон:Sfn David went as a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine to Greenland and to Native Americans, among other places.Шаблон:Sfn On a mission to Greenland, he cofounded in 1733 the settlement Neu-Herrnhut, with Matthias Stach and Christian Stach.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

David wrote a hymn "Seyd gegrüßt, zu tausendmahl" (Be welcome, a thousand times), published in 1728.Шаблон:Sfn Two centuries later, Otto Riethmüller chose two of its stanzas for the hymn "Sonne der Gerechtigkeit", published first in 1932 in a song book for young people, Ein neues Lied (A new song), and later in many hymnals.Шаблон:Sfn An additional stanza was added to the hymn in an ecumenical version in 1971.Шаблон:Sfn

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