Christian David
Christian David
Born	(1692-02-17)17 February 1692 Senftleben, Moravia
Died	3 February 1751(1751-02-03) (aged 58) Herrnhut, Saxony
Occupations	Moravian missionary Writer Hymnwriter
Organizations	Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine or Moravian Church

Christian David (1692–1751) was a Moravian 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. ^[1] In 1722, he helped refugees from Moravia to escape the counter reformation to Saxony. There, he was a co-founder of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine, ^[1] working closely with of Nikolaus Ludwig Graf von Zinzendorf. ^[2] David went as a missionary of the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine to Greenland and to Native Americans, among other places. ^[3] On a mission to Greenland, he cofounded in 1733 the settlement Neu-Herrnhut, with Matthias Stach and Christian Stach. ^{[4] [5]}

David wrote a hymn "Seyd gegrüßt, zu tausendmahl" (Be welcome, a thousand times), published in 1728. ^[6] 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. ^[3] An additional stanza was added to the hymn in an ecumenical version in 1971. ^[6]

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