The Rev. Ernst Theophil David was born on 14 September 1835 and died in 1907 in Saratov. He was ordained 5 December 1865 and served congregations in the following colonies: Morgentau (1865-1867), Frank (1867-1878), Bettinger (1879-1889), Balzer (1893-1903), and Gnadenflur (1894).
Sources
- Schnurr, Joseph. Die Kirchen und das religiöse Leben der Russlanddeutschen – Evangelischer Teil (Stuttgart: AER Verlag Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Rußland, 1978): 130, 192.