Georg Wonna

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Georg Wonna (born January 20, 1637 in Ortenburg ; † November 30, 1708 in Regensburg ) was an Evangelical Lutheran clergyman , high school professor and superintendent in Regensburg.

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Georg Wonna was born on January 20, 1637 in the immediate imperial county of Ortenburg as the son of the evangelical court preacher Christian Wonna and his second wife Anna Barbara Steinhäuserin. Between 1648 and 1656 Wonna attended the Poeticum grammar school in Regensburg. As a result, he studied as a scholarship holder of the Imperial City of Regensburg from 1656 at the University of Jena and from 1661 at the University of Tübingen . He became poeta laureatus in 1657 and master's degree in 1658 . In 1664 Wonna was appointed to the ministry of the clergy by the city council of Regensburg and at the same time he was a grammar school professor at the newly built auditorium of the Poeticum grammar school. In the same year Wonna became consistorial assessor. In 1685 he became superintendent and scholarch . During his term of office, the ministry in Regensburg decided to create a memorial book for the past and future clergy, the editor of which was Wonna. On November 30, 1708, Wonna died of a stroke. His successor as superintendent was Georg Serpilius .

literature

  • Martin Angerer (Ed.): 1542–1992 - 450 Years of the Evangelical Church in Regensburg, Regensburg 1992, pp. 420 f., No. 216.
  • Carl Mehrmann: History of the Evangelical Lutheran community of Ortenburg in Lower Bavaria. Memorandum for the anniversary celebration of the 300th anniversary of the introduction of the Reformation there on October 17 and 18, 1863 . Landshut 1863, p. 110 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Clemens Alois Baader: "Lexicon of deceased Bavarian writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries" , Volume I, Part 2: M – Z, Augsburg / Leipzig 1824, p. 342 ( digitized version ).

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SURNAME Wonna, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wonna, Georgius; Wona, Georg; Wonna, George; Wonna, Geörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Pastor, high school professor, superintendent
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1637
PLACE OF BIRTH Ortenburg
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1708
Place of death regensburg