Christoph Heinrich Bonwetsch

The Reverend Christoph Heinrich Bonwetsch, son of hatter Johann Christoph Heinrich Bonwetsch and Maria Agnes Gänslen, was born in Metzingen, Württemberg on 6 July 1804 and died in Norka, Russia on 17 February 1876 of a stroke. He was married on 8 January 1831 in Katharinenfeld, Georgia to Beate Christiana Friedrich, daughter of Pastor Johann Jakob Friederich and Eberhardine Dorothea Canz. She was born 19 October 1802 in Winzerhausen, Württemberg, and died in Norka on 10 February 1888. Pastor Bonwetsch trained first as a cobbler. On 5 December 1824, he began theological training at the Mission Institute in Basel, Switzerland, and was ordained on 10 September 1828 in Auggen, Baselland. He served as pastor in Katharinenfeld, Georgia, from 1828 to 1840. He served from 1840 to 1845 in Tiflis (Tbliisi). From 1845 to 1876, he was pastor of the Norka parish, also serving from 1847 to 1870 as the Dean of the congregations on the Bergseite.

Source: The Center for Volga German Studies at Concordia University

Registration of Reverend Christoph Heinrich Bonwetsch from the Basler Missionhaus

Notes:

Christoph Heinrich Bonwetsch is the father of Gottlieb Nathanael Bonwetsch.

Rev. Wilhelm Stärkel married Beate Bonwetsch, the daughter of Christoph Heinrich and Beate Christiana Bonwetsch, on 4 July 1868 in Norka. Rev. Stärkel mentions in a letter written in the summer of 1869 that his father-in-law is very ill with peritonitis, which nearly killed him.

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