Paul Friedrich Bronisch

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Paul Friedrich Bronisch Sorbian Pawol Fryco Bronis , (* 9. June 1830 in Jessen in Spremberg , † 11. December 1898 in Cottbus ) was in the Lower Lausitz active Sorbian priest and writer .

Life

The son of a pastor attended high school in Cottbus and studied theology in Berlin. He was a deacon in Peitz from 1855 to 1859 and then a pastor in Leuthen near Drebkau until 1873 . From 1873 until his death in 1898 he was archdeacon of the Sorbian monastery church in Cottbus.

Bronisch preached in Lower Sorbian and translated various texts into this language, for example Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Erlkönig . He was involved in the translation of the Lower Sorbian Bible printed in 1868.

In 1880 he was a co-founder of the Lower Sorbian Maśica Serbska . His son Matthias Gotthelf Bronisch (1868–1937) also became a pastor and worked as a linguist .

Works

  • Kjarliže k spěwanju , 1876
  • Na šesty maj , 1891

literature

  • Nowy biografiski słownik k stawiznam a Kulturje Serbow . Domowina, Budyšin [Bautzen] 1984, p. 75–76 (from Gerat Hančka).