Georg Biundo

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Georg Biundo (born January 10, 1892 in Frankfurt am Main , † January 11, 1988 in Frankenthal (Palatinate) ) was a German Protestant clergyman and historian.

Life

Biundo, son of a merchant from a family in the Electoral Palatinate, studied Protestant theology , history and philosophy from 1910 to 1914 in Strasbourg, Berlin and Heidelberg and after the First World War he was first city vicar in Kaiserslautern , pastor in Thaleischweiler in 1919 , in Bellheim in 1928 , and in Annweiler am in 1932 Trifels . After participating in World War II as a reserve officer, he became a pastor in Roxheim in 1946 . In 1953 he retired.

Biundo published numerous articles on local and church history. In 1925, after the founding of the Association for Palatinate Church History, he was appointed editor of the Blätter für Palatine Church History , a position he held until 1958. His Palatinate Pastors and Schoolmaster's Book , published in 1930, became a standard work. It was later replaced by the work he also edited, The Evangelical Clergy of the Palatinate since the Reformation (Neustadt / Aisch 1968). During the Second World War, Biundo received his doctorate in Heidelberg in 1941 with a thesis on the reformer Kaspar Aquila . In 1946 he became a lecturer and in 1949 honorary professor for Rhenish-Palatinate church history at the University of Mainz .

Awards

  • 1967: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
  • The communities Annweiler and Roxheim made Biundo their honorary citizen.

more publishments

  • History of Thaleischweiler and its surroundings . Thaleischweiler 1924.
  • Bellheim through the ages . Bellheim 1930.
  • Annweiler. History of an old imperial city . Annweiler 1937.
  • Regesta of the Reichsfest Trifels . Kaiserslautern 1940.
  • Archbishop Adalbert of Mainz, Trifels and Reich . Annweiler 1942.
  • Regesta of the former Augustinian provost Hördt . Speyer 1954.

literature

  • Alfred Hans Kuby: Prof. Dr. theol. Georg Biundo passed away . In: Palatinate home. Vol. 39 (1988), pp. 84 f.
  • Michael Tilly: Georg Karl Joseph Biundo . In: Christoph Picker / Christine Lauer / Martin Schuck (eds.): Protestants without protest. The Evangelical Church of the Palatinate under National Socialism, Speyer 2016, p. 660f.
  • Ronald D. Webster: Dr. Georg Biundo. German Pastor, Ardent Nationalist, Sometime Antisemite. In: Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte 13 (2000), pp. 92–111.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Personal curriculum vitae from February 26, 1946, central archive of the EKHN in Darmstadt, holdings 193/65
personal data
SURNAME Biundo, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant clergyman and historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1988
Place of death Frankenthal (Palatinate)