Clemens Maria Franz von Bönninghausen

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Clemens von Boenninghausen

Clemens Maria Franz von Bönninghausen (born March 12, 1785 at Gut Herinckhave near Tubbergen , Netherlands ; † January 25, 1864 in Münster / Westphalia ) was a homeopath , botanist and senior Prussian administrative officer.

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Gut Herinckhave near Tubbergen

Bönninghausen attended the Paulinum grammar school in Münster and then studied law in Groningen . He completed his studies with a doctorate on Dutch hunting law. Various activities as a lawyer followed before he took over his father's inheritance, the Haus Darup zu Darup estate in Westphalia , in the spring of 1814 , where he discovered his passion for agriculture, especially for flora and fauna. For years he was also director of the botanical garden in Münster and lecturer at the academic teaching institute there, which later became the Westphalian Wilhelms University .

In 1816 the Prussian King Friedrich-Wilhelm III appointed him . to the first district administrator of the Coesfeld district . He set up the county administration at his country estate in Darup. A little later he found homeopathy. He was a student of Samuel Hahnemann and was one of the pioneers of this young medical direction. In numerous publications, he put down his experiences and findings from his extensive practice, which he maintained in Darup and Münster. Among his patients was the poet Annette von Droste-Hülshoff , as well as the French Empress Eugénie . He also headed the state commission of experts to investigate the stigmatization of the nun Anna Katharina Emmerick . Bönninghausen was a knight of the French Legion of Honor. On October 4, 1813, he married Freiin Sophia Franziska von Schade zu Ahausen (* 1787, † 1820) at Ahausen Castle . The son Clemens Ludwig Bernhard came from this marriage. The marriage with Maria Amalia Christina von Hamm on November 19, 1822 in Coesfeld resulted in nine children. Son August von Bönninghausen was the third district administrator in the Coesfeld district . Son Julius von Bönninghausen was a member of the Reichstag . Son Karl von Bönninghausen married Sophie Hahnemann in 1857, the adopted daughter of Mélanie Hahnemann , the second wife of his deceased colleague and teacher.

His grave in the old Hörster cemetery in Münster fell victim to the bombing of the Second World War . Today a sandstone stele with the portrait of the baron commemorates the scholar. Von-Bönninghausen-Strasse has been named after him at his old place of work in Darup since 1996 . In 2014 a monument with his bust was inaugurated in Darup in his honor.

honors and awards

  • Dedication names: The genus Boenninghausenia of the plant family of the diamond plants (Rutaceae) was probably named in his honor .
  • Honorary Medical Doctorate from the Collegium Medicinal, Cleveland, Ohio, USA (1854)
  • Appointment as Knight of the Legion of Honor by Emperor Napoleon 111th of France (1861)

Works

literature

  • Ernst Friedländer:  Bönninghausen, Clemens Maria Franz von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 131 f.
  • Martin Stahl: The correspondence between Samuel Hahnemann and Clemens von Bönninghausen. (Medical dissertation, Göttingen 1995), Heidelberg 1997 (= sources and studies on the history of homeopathy, 3)
  • Christian Schulze Pellengahr : Clemens von Bönninghausen: lawyer, botanist and homeopath. In: Yearbook Westphalia 2015. Münster 2014, pp. 238–244.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ duelmen.de: Anne Catherine Emmerich ( Memento of 23 March 2005 at the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Lotte Burkhardt: Directory of eponymous plant names . Extended Edition. Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, Free University Berlin Berlin 2018. [1]
  3. ↑ a b Christian Schulze Pellengahr: “On the history of the Darup house in Darup and its owners!” In: Westfälische Zeitschrift 155, 2005 (pdf) , Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL), accessed on May 19, 2020

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personal data
SURNAME Bönninghausen, Clemens Maria Franz von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bönninghausen, Clemens Maria Franz Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Westphalian botanist and homeopath
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1785
PLACE OF BIRTH Tubbergen , Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1864
Place of death Münster , Westphalia Province , Kingdom of Prussia