Georg Friedrich Boehringer

Georg Friedrich Böhringer (born December 28, 1812 in Maulbronn , † September 16, 1879 in Basel ) was a German theologian .

Life

Grave stele in the Wolfgottesacker cemetery , Basel

Georg Friedrich Böhringer was born in Maulbronn on 28 December 1812, which was attended grammar school in Maulbronn and then studied theology at the universities of Munich and Tübingen , where he in 1830 a member of the fraternity Germania Munich and in 1832 a member of the fraternity Feuerreiter Tübingen was. In 1832 he took part in the Stuttgart Burschentag as spokesman and representative of the Tübingen fraternity , organized preparations for the Frankfurt Wachensturm in Tübingen in 1833 and fled to Zurich in Switzerland because of an investigation that had been initiated against him. Wanted in profile , he could only continue to live under severe privation and finally became a private teacher at the Fellenberg teaching institute in Hofwyl , then a private teacher in Bern , editor in Basel until he became a citizen in Herrliberg in 1836 . From 1836 he worked as a vicar in Greifensee ZH . In 1842 he became a pastor in Glattfelden ; he held the position until 1853. After that, he stayed first in Zurich , then in Basel and devoted himself to work relating to church history . Böhringer died on September 16, 1879 in Basel. He left behind a son, Paul Böhringer .

Works

Reflections on the revolution in the canton of Zurich. (1839)
The Church of Christ and its Witnesses or Church History in Biographies (24 volumes; Zurich 1842 to 1858)

literature

Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 1: A-E. Winter, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8253-0339-X , p. 113.
Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : Böhringer, Georg Friedrich. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 667. ( Article / beginning of article in the Internet archive )

Individual evidence

^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 1: A-E. Winter, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8253-0339-X , p. 113.

personal data
SURNAME	Böhringer, Georg Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German theologian
DATE OF BIRTH	December 28, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH	Maulbronn
DATE OF DEATH	September 16, 1879
Place of death	Basel

[1] Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 1: A-E. Winter, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8253-0339-X , p. 113.