Carl Bonhoff

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Georg Albrecht Carl Bonhoff , modernized Karl Bonhoff , (born October 3, 1865 in Königshof near Hannoversch Münden , Kingdom of Hanover ; † after 1935) was a German Evangelical Reformed theologian and Freemason .

Life

Bonhoff was the child of the doctor Heinrich Bonhoff, born in Hanover in 1809, who acquired the Königshof estate near Hannoversch Münden in 1854 and converted it into a cold water and natural healing institution. It emerged from his father's marriage to Theodora Hedwig von Haynau, daughter of Eduard von Haynau . The future medical officer and hygienist Heinrich Bonhoff was his brother by a year older.

After attending grammar school in Kassel, Carl Bonhoff studied theology at the universities of Leipzig , Berlin and Marburg . After that he was educator of the princes of Wied in Neuwied am Rhein . He then became pastor of the Reformed Congregation in Leipzig .

He retired in 1908 at the age of 43. After the end of the First World War he took over the pastoral office of the Reformed Church in Leipzig again. He could be reached in Leipzig at Trödlinring 7.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Song of Songs of Love. Six sermons. Barth, Leipzig 1897.
  • Jesus and his contemporaries (= From nature and spirit world, 89). BG Teubner, Leipzig 1906.
  • Figures and legends, religious speeches . Fritz Eckardt, Leipzig 1908.
  • Death and the dead woman. Novel. Fritz Eckardt, Leipzig 1909.
  • Up, my country! Four war sermons were given in the Evangelical Reformed Church in Leipzig . 1915.
  • The Temple of Freemasonry. Leipzig 1920.
  • In memory of Artur Seemann. Words spoken on his coffin on January 5th, 1926 . Leipzig 1926.
  • Erich Ludendorff's second, third and fourth "extermination blow" against Freemasonry. A final account [lecture]. Association of German Freemasons, Leipzig 1928.
  • God spoke. Sermon on Christmas Day 1933 . Leipzig 1933.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Marburg professor catalog , vol. 1, p. 272 ​​and vol. 2, p. 206.
personal data
SURNAME Bonhoff, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bonoff, Karl; Bonhoff, Georg Albrecht Carl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Reformed theologian and Freemason
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Royal court near Hannoversch Münden
DATE OF DEATH after 1935