Gottlieb Nathaniel Bonwetsch

Gottlieb Nathaniel Bonwetsch (born 5 Februarjul / February 17 1848greg in Norka, Saratov, Russia;. . † July 18, 1925 in Göttingen ) was a German Protestant theologian.

Life

The ancestors Bonwetschs can be detected from 1550 as farmers, artisans and winemakers in Metzingen. His parents were the priest Christoph Heinrich Bonwetsch, who lived from 1804 to 1876 and was the son of Johann Christoph Heinrich Hatter, and his wife Beate Christine Bonwetsch, in turn, lived from 1802 to 1888 and was the daughter of a priest.

Nathanael Bonwetsch was born on 17 February 1848 in Norka. He attended a grammar school in Tallinn and studied theology and history in the years 1866-1870 at the University of Dorpat. The following year he worked as Propstadjunkt on the Volga, 1874/1875, he continued his studies at the University of Göttingen and was then parish representatives in Norka. 1877/1878, he spent more on the University of Bonn; at the University of Dorpat he received his doctorate in 1878, both the doctor and habilitated.

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

In Dorpat he had married in 1883 to Lydia Degeller and had a son named Gerhard ( 1885-1956 ), the historian was.

Works (selection)

• The history of Montanism (1881 )
• The Slavonic Book of Enoch (1897 )
• The Apocalypse of Abraham (1897 )
• The theology of Methodius of Olympus (1903 )
• God Help Heinrich Schubert in his letters (1918 )
• The theology of Irenaeus (1925 )