Conradin Bonorand

Conradin Bonorand (born July 8, 1914 in Waltensburg , † August 13, 1996 in Chur ) was a Reformed pastor and historian from Switzerland .

Life

Conradin Bonorand was born on July 8, 1914 in Waltensburg in Surselva in the canton of Graubünden as the son of pastor Conradin Samuel Bonorand. He attended primary school in Waltensburg and the Bündner Kantonsschule in Chur. After graduating from high school , he studied Protestant theology at the universities of Zurich , Rome and Berlin from 1935 to 1939 . After graduating, he was accepted into the Evangelical-Rhaetian Synod . After 1942 he worked as a pastor in the communities of Pitasch and Riein .

In 1944 he began studying history at the University of Zurich and continued as an exchange student in Pavia in 1948. In the same year he received his doctorate from Zurich University. In 1949 he began to work as a historian in St. Gallen .

In 1952 he returned to Graubünden and became pastor in Luven and Flond . For family reasons, Bonorand moved to Chur in 1972, where he retired in 1979. Bonorand died in Chur on August 13, 1996 at the age of 82.

Works

• 16th-century scholars in the circle of Georg Joachim Rhetikus and Joachim Vadian
• The Bamberg court master Johann von Schwarzenberg, the humanist Veit Werler and other Franks in Villach (autumn 1521) in: Neues aus Alt-Villach 15

literature

• Erich Wenneker :  Bonorand, Conradin. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 15, Bautz, Herzberg 1999, ISBN 3-88309-077-8 , Sp. 250-254.

Web links

• Publications by and about Conradin Bonorand in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
• Works by and about Conradin Bonorand  in the German Digital Library