May 12, 1688, Lis­sa, Si­le­sia.

Ju­ly 6, 1758, Thom­men­dorf (near Bunz­lau), Ger­ma­ny.

Johann was the son of Ae­gid­i­us Rothe, pas­tor at Lis­sa, near Gör­litz, Si­le­sia. Jo­hann en­tered the Un­i­ver­si­ty of Leip­zig in 1708, as a stu­dent of the­ol­o­gy, grad­u­at­ed MA, then, in 1712, was li­censed at Gör­litz as a gen­er­al preach­er. In 1718 he be­came tu­tor in the fam­i­ly of Herr von Schwein­itz at Len­be, a few miles south of Gör­litz. While there, he fre­quent­ly preached in neigh­bor­ing church­es. Dur­ing 1722, Ni­cho­las von Zin­zen­dorf, hear­ing him preach at Gross-Hen­ners­dorf, was great­ly im­pressed by him; when the pas­tor­ate at Ber­thels­dorf be­came va­cant short­ly there­af­ter in 1722, Zin­zen­dorf gave it to Rothe. There Rothe took a great in­ter­est in the Mo­ra­vi­an com­mun­i­ty at Herrn­hut, which formed part of his par­ish. But when, in 1737, he had to re­port to the high­er ec­cle­si­as­tic­al au­thor­i­ties re­gard­ing the doc­trin­al view of the Mo­ra­vi­ans, Zin­zen­dorf showed his re­sent­ment in var­i­ous ways, so that Rothe was glad to ac­cept a call to Herms­dorf, near Gör­litz. Fin­al­ly, in 1739, Count von Prom­nitz ap­poin­ted Rothe as as­sist­ant pas­tor at Thom­men­dorf, near Bunz­lau, where he be­came chief pas­tor in 1742.

• Julian, pp. 978-9
• Telford, p. 234

1. Ich habe nun den Grund ge­fund­en
   • I Now Have Found for Hope of Heave­n
   • Now I Have Found the Firm Found­a­tion
   • Now I Have Found the Ground Where­in
2. Vor wahrer Herzenän­der­ung
3. Wenn kleine Him­mels­erben