The Rev. John Martin Bolzius and the Rev. Israel Christian Gronau were ministers who came to Georgia with the first company of Salzburgers. In March 1734, Bolzius was Superintendent of the Latin Orphan House at Halle, on the Seale, and Gronau was a tutor in the same institution, when the Salzburgers arrived in that city on their way to Georgia in November 1733. Both men gave up their positions at Halle to accompany the Salzburgers as their pastors. Through all the trials and hardships of the early years of the Salzburger settlement in Georgia, they served as pastors, teachers, and friends, and the Colony as well as the community of Ebenezer owed much to their efforts and instruction. Gronau died January 11, 1745, and Bolzius died November 19, 1765, at the age of 61 years and 11 months.