12 Facts About David Zeisberger

David Zeisberger was a Moravian clergyman and missionary among the Native American tribes who resided in the Thirteen Colonies.

David Zeisberger established communities of Munsee converts to Christianity in the valley of the Muskingum River in Ohio; and for a time, near modern-day Amherstburg, Ontario.

However, when his family migrated to the newly established colony of Georgia, David Zeisberger remained in Europe to complete his education.

David Zeisberger later rejoined his family in the Moravian community at Savannah, Georgia.

In 1739, David Zeisberger was influential in the development of a Moravian community in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and was there at its dedication on Christmas Eve 1741.

David Zeisberger became fluent in the Onondaga language and assisted Conrad Weiser in negotiating an alliance between the Thirteen Colonies and the Iroquois in Onondaga.

David Zeisberger produced dictionaries and religious works in Iroquoian and Algonquian, making him the father of Lenape writing.

David Zeisberger began as a missionary to Native American peoples following his ordination as a Moravian minister in 1749.

David Zeisberger worked in Kuskusky among the Lenape of Pennsylvania, focusing his efforts on converting as many Indians as possible to Christianity.

David Zeisberger was the senior missionary of the United Brethren among the Indians.

David Zeisberger spent a period of 62 years, excepting a few short intervals, as a missionary among the Indians.

David Zeisberger died on November 17,1808, at Goshen, Ohio, on the river Tuscarawas, at the age of 87.