Johann Conrad Bonorand

Johann Conrad Bonorand (* 1651 in Susch ; † March 1719 in Thusis ) was a Reformed pastor from Switzerland.

Life

Johann Conrad Bonorand was born in 1651 in Susch in the Lower Engadine as the son of a pastor. After 1670 he studied at the University of Zurich and was accepted into the Evangelical-Rhaetian Synod in Davos in 1674 . In the same year he was appointed pastor in Rothenbrunnen . Two years later he moved to the Igis community .

In 1703 Bonorand moved to Germany and took over a pastorate in Usingen in Hesse . Since he was not satisfied with his salary, he planned to move to Neukelsterbach . Because there was no prospect of this position, he stayed in Usingen. In 1704 he traveled to Switzerland with a church parish leader to collect money for the construction of the Usingen "Huguenot Church"

He gave up the office a year later. How he worked in the following years is not known; possibly he was in Konigsberg , Altona and Stuttgart . Bonorand's son of the same name called him a "language teacher", which indicates that his father was active as such during this time.

In 1713 Johann Conrad Bonorand returned to Switzerland, where he became pastor in Thusis . Even then, his health seemed to have deteriorated. Bonorand died in March 1719.

Works

• Fortunat spokesman's Historia Rhaetica or Graubündner CHRONIC about the same country worthy of knowledge / and at all times wars and Unrest / Translated from Latin into German with Gemeiner Landen Privilegio by Johann Conradin à Bonorando
• An artificial sermon / without the letter R. From the beginning to the end bit about the nice word.
• La parfait odele de toutes les pieres proposies en peu de paroles par M. Caspar Neumann, traduitre en francaise (Stendall 1711)
• A sermon held at Thusis on June 4, 1714 because a young daughter was decapitated as a fiend (Chur 1714)

literature

• Erich Wenneker :  Bonorand, Johann Conrad. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 15, Bautz, Herzberg 1999, ISBN 3-88309-077-8 , Sp. 254-256.
• Ernst Lechner: The Protestant pastors of the community of Thusis since the Reformation (Thusis 1887)