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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
German theologian and dissident anti-Nazi (–)
"Bonhoeffer" redirects here. For other people with the surname, see Bonhoeffer (surname). For the film, see Bonhoeffer (film).
The Reverend Dietrich Bonhoeffer | |
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Bonhoeffer in his garden in Berlin | |
| Born | ()4 February Breslau, Silesia, Prussia, Germany |
| Died | 9 April () (aged&#;39) Flossenbürg, Bavaria, Germany |
| Cause&#;of death | Execution by hanging |
| Education | Staatsexamen (Tübingen), Doctor of Theology (Berlin), Privatdozent (Berlin) |
| Alma&#;mater | University of Tübingen University of Berlin |
| Parents | |
| Relatives | Klaus Bonhoeffer (brother) Hans von Dohnanyi (brother-in-law) |
| Religion | Lutheranism |
| Church | Evangelical Church of the old-Prussian Union (–) Confessing Church (–) |
Congregations served | Zion's Church congregation, Berlin German-speaking congregations of St. Paul's and Sydenham, London |
Offices held | Associate lecturer at Frederick William University of Berl • German neurologist and psychiatrist with a leaning towards neuropathology.
Life Karl Ludwig Bonhoeffer () was born in Neresheim in the then Kingdom of Württemberg as the son of a judge. He spent his childhood years in Heilbronn and Ravensburg. After completing his school education in Tübingen, he studied medicin in Tübingen, Berlin and Munich from to He held his first position at Breslau University Hospital as an assistant to Carl Wernicke, under whom he also gained the formal qualification for professorship (habilitation) and became director of the forensic department in Bonhoeffer was appointed a professor at Königsberg University in He transferred to Heidelberg the following year to become the chair of psychiatry in succession to Emil Kraepelin, but soon returned to Breslau to assume Wernicke’s former brev as director of the university klinik, presumably because he preferred the latter’s neuropathological approach over the Kraepelinian tradition upheld in Heidelberg (S • Dietrich Bonhoeffer“A Spoke in the Wheel”Dietrich Bonhoeffer was born in Breslau, the sixth of eight children of the prominent psychiatrist Karl Bonhoeffer and his wife Paula. After completing high school, Dietrich Bonhoeffer began to study Protestant theology and received his doctorate in He completed his graduate training for the ministry in Barcelona. Next he obtained his qualifi cations to become a professor and completed an academic year in New York. Until , Dietrich Bonhoeffer worked as a lecturer and university pastor in Berlin. He worked with disadvantaged youth in the working-class district of Wedding. A convinced opponent of the National Socialist regime, Dietrich Bonhoeffer spoke in a radio address on February 1, , shortly after the seizure of power, asserting that “leaders and governments that worship themselves make a mockery of God.” The radio transmission was interrupted because of its unmistakable criticism of the National Socialist principle of leadership. That |