Nathanael Bonwetsch

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Gottlieb Nathanael Bonwitsch

Gottlieb Nathanael Bonwetsch (* February 5, July 17  / February 17, 1848 greg. In Norka , Saratow , Russian Empire ; † July 18, 1925 in Göttingen ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian .

Life

Bonwetsch's ancestors can be traced back to Metzingen as farmers , craftsmen and winemakers from 1550 onwards . His parents were the pastor Christoph Heinrich Bonwetsch, who lived from 1804 to 1876 and was the son of the hat maker Johann Christoph Heinrich, and his wife Beate Christine Bonwetsch, who in turn lived from 1802 to 1888 and was the daughter of a pastor.

Nathanael Bonwetsch was born on February 17th, 1848 in Norka. He attended a grammar school in Tallinn and studied theology and history from 1866 to 1870 at Dorpat University . In the following year he worked as provost adjunct on the Volga , in 1874/1875 he continued his studies at the University of Göttingen and then became parish priest in Norka. He spent 1877/1878 at the University of Bonn ; at the University of Tartu in 1878, he was both the doctor doctorate and habilitation . During his student years in Dorpat and Göttingen he became a member of Wingolf .

From 1882 he worked there as an associate professor of church history and was promoted to full professor the following year. In this position, Bonwetsch moved to Göttingen in 1891 and died there on July 18, 1925 at the age of 77.

In Dorpat he married Lydia Degeller in 1883 and had a son named Gerhard (1885-1956) who became a historian .

Works (selection)

  • On the history of montanism (1881)
  • The Slavic Book of Enoch (1897)
  • The Apocalypse of Abraham (1897)
  • The theology of Methodios of Olympus (1903)
  • Gotthilf Heinrich Schubert in his letters (1918)
  • The Theology of Irenaeus (1925)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vademecum Wingolfiticum. Born in 1925. p. 302.

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