Paul Boehringer

Paul Böhringer (born September 1, 1852 in Glattfelden , † July 3, 1929 in Basel ) was a Swiss theologian .

Life

Grave in the Wolfgottesacker cemetery , Basel

Paul Böhringer was born on September 1, 1852 in Glattfelden in the canton of Zurich as the son of pastor Georg Friedrich Böhringer . In Niederhasli he became pastor in 1875 (until 1879), and in 1877 private lecturer in theology at the University of Zurich . In the following year he gave up the pastor's office in Niederhasli and went to Basel to serve as a pastor at the local St. Peter parish. In that year he also became a private lecturer in church history at the University of Zurich. In 1896 he was promoted to professor . Böhringer died on July 3, 1929 in Basel.

Works

• Gregoire. A textbook from the French Revolution (1878)
• Fathers of the Papacy (1879)
• Käthe, Luther's wife (1888)
• The Church of Christ and its Witnesses or Church History in Biographies (twelve volumes; 1860 to 1892; together with his father)

literature

• Albert Teichmann : The University of Basel in the fifty years since its reorganization in 1835. Schultze'sche Universitäts-Buchdruckerei (F. Reinhardt), Basel 1885, p. 53 ( online ).
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Böhringer, Paul. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 667.

Web links

• Overview of Paul Böhringer's courses at the University of Zurich (summer semester 1878 to winter semester 1878)