Leopold Eberhard Bonsen
Leopold Eberhard Bonsen (also Bonzen ; * 1699 in Montbéliard ; † 1788 ibid) was a French Lutheran theologian .
Life
Leopold Eberhard Bonsen was born in Montbéliard as the son of a German and a French woman. He studied theology at the University of Strasbourg . In 1723 he became vicar at the French Church in Strasbourg, then worked as a tutor . In 1727 he was appointed vice principal of the grammar school in his hometown. Eight years later he was promoted to rector. He was appointed superintendent in 1769. In 1788 he died in his hometown.
Bonsen was a representative of the strict Lutheran orthodoxy and was directed against the Reformed Church and against Pietism , which is why he fought a violent dispute with his successor Jean-Jacques Duvernoy. In 1747 he published Recueil de Cantiques , a revision of the Cantiques spirituels , in which German chorales were reproduced in French adaptations. Here you can also find some of the songs he has translated, some of which are still in use.
literature
- Eugène Haag, Émile Haag: La France protestante . Volume 2. Paris 1847, p. 399.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : Bonsen, Leopold Eberhard. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 697.
- Elisabeth Berlioz: Ecoles et protestantisme: le Pays de Montbéliard 1769-1833. Besançon 2009, pp. 43-48 et al.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bonsen, Leopold Eberhard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bonzen, Leopold Eberhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French Lutheran theologian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1699 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montbeliard |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1788 |
| Place of death | Montbeliard |