Johann Joseph Brungs

Memorial plaque for Johann Joseph Brungs at the Weyermannallee 1a in Bad Honnef

Johann Joseph Brungs (also just Joseph Brungs ; born September 21, 1853 in Honnef , † November 29, 1942 ibid) was a German high school teacher and local researcher .

Life

Johann Joseph Brungs came from a family of winemakers in the Selhof district of Honnef, which has been proven for centuries . He studied philology at the University of Bonn . As a grammar school teacher, Brungs worked at the Thomaeum grammar school in Kempen on the Lower Rhine . Emmerich on the Lower Rhine and Cologne are known as other places of activity .

Brungs is the author of the book The City of Honnef and its History , published in 1925 on the occasion of the millennium of the Rhineland and the 600th anniversary of the St. Sebastianus Schützenverein Honnef , the first comprehensive account of the history of the city. He spent his retirement in Honnef, where he lived from 1919 to 1942 in Weyermannallee 1a ("Villa Martha"). On November 10, 2001, a memorial plaque with a portrait relief in memory of Brungs, donated by the Stadtsparkasse Bad Honnef and created by the Königswinter sculptor Sigrid Wenzel , was unveiled. In addition, Joseph-Brungs-Strasse in the Selhof district is named after him.

Fonts

History of the Gymnasium Thomaeum in Kempen . 4th part: The time of the French rule . Kempen 1907.
The city of Honnef and its history . Publishing house of the St. Sebastianus Schützenverein, Honnef 1925 (reprinted 1978 by Löwenburg-Verlag, Bad Honnef).
From the history of Rheinbreitbach . 1929.
A burgrave's life in Drachenfels around 1400. A cultural-historical sketch . In: Geschichtliche Landeskunde: Communications from the Institute for Historical Regional Studies of the Rhineland at the University of Bonn , No. 1, 1929, pp. 9–23.
Mountain and field names from the area of the Siebengebirge (Honnef) . Siebengebirgsbuchhandlung, Honnef a. Rh. 1931.

Editorships

(with August Haag ) Contributions and sources on the history and folklore of the Rhineland . Siebengebirgsbuchhandlung, Honnef a. Rh.

Web links

Literature by and about Johann Joseph Brungs in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

^ Johannes Jansen: Honnefer Familienbuch , Cologne 1972, Volume II, p. 66.
↑ ^a ^b ^c memorial plaque on the former home of Johann Joseph Brungs , Wikimedia Commons
↑ ^a ^b Professor Brungs wrote town history . In: General-Anzeiger . November 13, 2001, p. 6 .
^ Joseph Brungs - Catalog of the German National Library
^ Karl Günter Werber : Time leaps: Bad Honnef . Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2009, ISBN 978-3-86680-560-6 , p. 55 .
^ Adolf Nekum : A thousand years Selhof, 100 years of the citizens 'association: Chronicle of a village and its citizens' association. Bad Honnef-Selhof Citizens Association 1988, p. 140.

personal data
SURNAME	Brungs, Johann Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German high school teacher and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH	September 21, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH	Honnef
DATE OF DEATH	November 29, 1942
Place of death	Honnef

[1] Johannes Jansen: Honnefer Familienbuch , Cologne 1972, Volume II, p. 66.

[Gedenktafel-2] rial plaque on the former home of Johann Joseph Brungs , Wikimedia Commons

[GA2001-3] Professor Brungs wrote town history . In: General-Anzeiger . November 13, 2001, p. 6 .

[4] Joseph Brungs - Catalog of the German National Library

[5] Karl Günter Werber : Time leaps: Bad Honnef . Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2009, ISBN 978-3-86680-560-6 , p. 55 .

[6] Adolf Nekum : A thousand years Selhof, 100 years of the citizens 'association: Chronicle of a village and its citizens' association. Bad Honnef-Selhof Citizens Association 1988, p. 140.