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Title
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David Tanneberger Sr. (1696-1760)
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translator
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Carté, Katherine E.
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Publisher
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Moravian Archives, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
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Date
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1760
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Type
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Text
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Format
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image/jpeg
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Description
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This is the death notification in the church register for David Tanneberger Sr., which occurred in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in 1760. The entry contains a biography.
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Subject
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Tanneberger, David, 1696-1760
Moravian Church
Religious life--History--18th century
Bethlehem (Pa.)--History--18th century
Biography
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Source
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https://www.moravianchurcharchives.findbuch.net/php/main.php#4368526567x11
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Identifier
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Church Register 11, Bethlehem, 1756-1801, p. 267
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Language
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German
English
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Extent
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1 page
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Rights Holder
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Moravian Archives, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
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transcript of
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German transcription:
Anno 1760
No. 277 d. 5ten Jul.
Abends
David Tanneberger Senr. ein verehlichter Bruder, war geboren
in Decbr. ao. 1696. in Zauchtenthal, in MShren u. in der Cathol.n Religion getauft.
Zu der Zeit, da die große Erweckung in MShren war, dabey der heild den Abt. Stein-
mez, der damals in Teschen stand u. den sel.n Xhtn. David gebrauchte, wurde er
auch von der Gnade mit angefaßt u. exulirte ao. 1726 mit sr. ersten Frau
Judith, geb. Tillie, die er erst vor 2 Jahren geheyrathet hatte, nach Hhuth u. war
am 13ten Aug. 1727. bey dem A. ML. in der Berthelsdorfischen Kirche ein Mitgenoß,
da die Gemeine die große Taufe des H. Geistes erfuhr. Ao. 1731. that er mit
dem sel.n Chrn. David eine Reise nach der Schweiz. Ao. 36. um Fastnacht ging
se. Erste Frau in Hhuth sel. zum Heild. Ao. 35. ging
er t. einer Colonne
nach Georgien ab, u. Ao. 37. von da weg, herüber nach Pensylvanien, u. hielt
sich in Germantown auf, wo er vor sich lebte, bis der Jünger des He.n von Europa
herein kam, da er von demselben Ao. 42. wieder fgenommen wurde. Ao. 45.
d. 27ten Sept. kam er von da nach Bethl.m zur Gemeine; u. ao. 47 am 6. Jul.
trat er mit der nunmehrigen Wittwe Regina, verwittibte Demuthin,
in die 2tn Ehe. Von sn. 3 Söhnen aus der Ersten Ehe sind noch 2 hieneiden, Jo.
hannes, der in Philadelph. u. David, der in Europa zu Berthelsdorf woh-
net. In der 2ten Ehe hat er keine Kinder bekommen. Er diente in Bethlehem
der Gemeine t. sr. Schuhmacher-Profession u. stund der Schuhmacherey bald
an 15. Jahre treul. vor. Er war sonst ein stilles Gemüth, u. wenn man mit
ihm vom Heilde redete, so fand man, daß sn. Herze in Jesu Wunden
lebte. Seine Zeit wurde von ihm im sel.n. Umgange mit dem Heild zugebracht.
Er hatte auch die Gnade, der Gemeine= u. Chor=Jünger Würde zu verschiedenen
malen, mit sr. Frau, der nunmehrigen Wittwe, zu genßieen. Kurz vor
sm. Abschieden genoß er noch das h. Sacrament f. sm. Krankenbette. Und
ging am 5ten Jul. aus der Hütte, das Lamm Gottes zu küßen u. sn. lezter
Blick zeugte noch, daß er geglaubt. Sein Sterbens=Leben hat gewähret
64. Jahr; u. seine Hütte wurde Tages darauf, unter Br. Josephs Liturgie
f. unsern Gemeine-Gottses=Acker beerdigt.
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translation of
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English translation:
Year: 1760
No. 277
July 5
Evening
David Tanneberger, Sr., a married brother, was born in December 1696, in Zauchtenthal, Moravia, and was baptized in the Catholic religion. At that time, the time of the Great Awakening in Moravia which was being led by the Abbot Steinmetz—who was then in Teschen, and who employed the blessed Christian David [in the great awakening]—Tanneberger was touched by spiritual blessings. He was exiled in 1726 with his first wife, Judith, born Tillie, whom he had married just two years before. They traveled to Herrnhut and were happy participants at the Abend Mahl in the Berthelsdorf church in which the Gemeine experienced as a great baptism of the Holy Spirit. In 1731, he traveled with the blessed Christian David to Switzerland. In 1736, on Shrove Tuesday*, his first wife went blessedly home to the Savior in Herrnhut. In 1735 he left for Georgia with a colony. In 1737 he left there for Pennsylvania, and stayed in Germantown, where he lived for himself, until the Jünger of our Lord [Zinzendorf] came here from Europe in 1742, when he was taken up once again by the same. On September 27, 1745 he came from there to Bethlehem, to the Gemeine, and in 1747, on July 6, he entered into his second marriage with the woman who is now his widow, Regina, widowed Demuth. Of his three sons from his first marriage, two are still here below [on Earth]: Johannes, who lives in Philadelphia, and David, who lives in Europe, in Berthelsdorf. He had no children in his second marriage. He served the Bethlehem Gemeine in his profession as shoemaker, and directed the cobbler shop faithfully for nearly fifteen years. Otherwise, he was of a calm spirit, and if one spoke of the Savior with him, one found that his heart lived in JesusÕ wounds. He spent his time in blessed communion with the Savior. Several times he also had the blessing of enjoying, with the woman who is now his widow, the position of Gemeine-Jünger and Chor-Jünger. Shortly before his departure he tasted the Holy Sacrament once again from his sick bed. And he went out of his earthly home to kiss the Lamb of God on July 5th, and his last look testified again that he believed. His mortal life lasted sixty-four years, and his body was buried the next day in our Gemeine God’s Acre, under Br. Joseph’s liturgy.
*Mardi Gras
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