Leo Boenhoff

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Friedrich Andreas Gustav Leo Bönhoff (born October 2, 1872 in Trotha , † September 10, 1943 in Dresden ) was a German theologian who was also active as a local researcher and writer on church history .

Life

Bönhoff was born in Trotha in 1872 as the son of the merchant Wilhelm Bönhoff and his wife Louise, née Louise. Machetanz was born, but from 1881 to 1890 he attended the Wettiner Gymnasium in Dresden , where he had moved with his parents. He studied theology, languages ​​and philosophy in Tübingen and Leipzig and completed his studies on July 2, 1894 after accepting his dissertation on the subject Adhelm von Malmesbury - A Contribution to Anglo-Saxon Church History as a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Leipzig . In 1896 he received the degree of licentiate in theology. In 1898 he was hired as a vicar in the Dresden Petrigemeinde. A year later he became vicar and finally in 1900 pastor in Pleißa near Chemnitz . In 1903 he was called to Annaberg as a deacon , and in 1912 he became archdeacon there. In 1925 he was transferred as pastor to the Matthäuskirche in Dresden, where he worked until his retirement in 1937. Bönhoff spent his twilight years in the Radebeul district of Oberlößnitz , at 53 Hauptstrasse .

Alongside Walter Fröbe and Siegfried Sieber , Bönhoff is considered to be one of the masters of Ore Mountains local research in the 20th century. Fröbe judged him: “He was one of the first to approach home history with the seriousness of the modern researcher, with the exactness of scientific investigation, long before it received such detailed attention in the institutes and seminars of the universities. And Bönhoff was the first who dared to critically study our older Latin documents and sources and came to new knowledge. “ The extent of the rule Hartenstein or the Muldensprengel reflects. Bönhoff achieved particular importance through his work on the manuscripts of the chronicler Christian Lehmann , whose war chronicle he first printed in extracts in 1911. In total, Bönhoff wrote over 250 individual titles in various magazines (including the Glückauf magazine of the Erzgebirgsverein , in the New Archive for Saxon History , articles for Saxon church history , the Neues Sächsisches Kirchenblatt and other regional newspapers).

Bönhoff was married to Clara Pauline Fischer from Chemnitz since 1901. He was buried in the cemetery of the Matthäuskirche in Dresden.

The library and the written estate of Bönhoff were lost when the Soviet army marched in after the end of the Second World War , when the apartment of his widow Clara was confiscated.

Major works

  • The territorial lords of Limbach - from the end of the 12th to the beginning of the 16th century , 1902.
  • The Muldensprengel. A contribution to the ecclesiastical geography of the Ore Mountains . In: NASG 24 (1903), pp. 43-66.
  • The original scope of the county of Hartenstein . In: NASG 27 (1906), pp. 209-278.
  • The castles of the Saxon Ore Mountains , 1908–1912.
  • Erzgebirge war chronicle based on the original of the "German war chronicle": The Saxon Erzgebirge in war pain . In: Annaberg History Association, Vol. 4, 1911.
  • Archdeaconate, Archpriest's Chair and Parish of Bautzen , 1913.
  • The introduction of the Reformation in the parishes of the Saxon Upper Lusatia . In: Contributions to the Saxon Church History 27 (1914), pp. 132–178.
  • The Annaberg care at the beginning of the 18th century , journal article 1938, re-edition 2008.
  • The Gau Nisan in political and church relations . In: NASG 36 (1915), pp. 177-211.

literature

  • Heinz Bauer: ... by Leo Bönhoff . In: Erzgebirgische Heimatblätter , 14 (1992) 4, pp. 12-13. ISSN  0232-6078
  • Heinz Bauer: Between the altar and the archive - Leo Bönhoff on his 140th birthday. In: Sächsische Heimatblätter , 55 (2012) 4, pp. 361–363. ISSN  0486-8234
  • Christian Bönhoff: A love of homeland shaped his work - 65 years ago Leo Bönhoff, the old master of Ore Mountains homeland research, died . In: Freie Presse , local edition Schwarzenberg, October 8, 2008.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Address book Radebeul, 1939, p. 11.
personal data
SURNAME Bönhoff, Leo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bönhoff, Friedrich Andreas Gustav Leo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pastor, local researcher and church historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Trotha
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 1943
Place of death Dresden