Dietrich Bonhoeffer Family Life

His family were not religious but had a strong musical and artistic heritage.

Dietrich bonhoeffer family life. 1 early life 1 1 childhood and family 1 2 german academic studies 1 3 studies in america 2 career 2 1 confessing church 2 2 london ministry 2 3 underground seminaries 2 4 return to the united states 2 5 abwehr agent 3 final years 3 1 imprisonment 3 2 execution 4 legacy 4 1 theological legacy 4 2 works by bonhoeffer 4 2 1 definitive fortress. He and sabine were the sixth and seventh children out of eight his father was a psychiatrist and neurologist karl bonhoeffer noted for his criticism of sigmund freud. In 1938 the year after the gestapo closed the confessing church s seminary at finkenwalde dietrich stayed in the leibholz home and wrote his classic life together.

Bonhoeffer was born in breslau germany in 1906. The cambridge companion to dietrich bonhoeffer source amazon affiliate link. Early life childhood and early life.

Karl paula bonhoeffer 1868 1948 1874 1951 distinguished parents. And his mother paula. Bonhoeffer was born in 1906 in breslau germany into a large and prominent family which included his father noted psychiatrist and neurologist karl bonhoeffer.

His father was a neurologist and a psychiatrist who moved the family to berlin to establish himself as a professor of neurology at university of berlin. The twins dietrich and sabine enjoyed a unique chemistry in the large bonhoeffer family. It gave him a certainty of judgment and manner that cannot be acquired in a single generation bethge 13.

Significant people in dietrich bonhoeffer s life. Bonhoeffer was born on 4 february 1906 in breslau germany into a large family in addition to his other siblings dietrich had a twin sister sabine bonhoeffer leibholz. Cambridge university press 1999 xxiv xxvi.

De gruchy ed the cambridge companion to dietrich bonhoeffer cambridge. Among the family s most notable members are the sons of psychiatrist and neurologist karl bonhoeffer dietrich bonhoeffer 1906 1945 and klaus bonhoeffer 1901 1945 both resistance fighters in different ways against the nazi régime who were executed in the. Bethge dietrich s closest friend comments that the rich world of his ancestors set the standards for dietrich bonhoeffer s own life.