Boehringer, Georg Friedrich

BOEHRINGER, bŪ-ring´er, GEORG FRIEDRICH: Swiss Protestant (Tübingen school); b. at Maulbronn, Württemberg, Dec. 28, 1812; d. at Basel, blind and crippled, Sept. 16, 1879. He studied at Tübingen, took part in the insurrectionary movements in 1833, and was in consequence compelled to flee to Switzerland; became pastor at Glattfelden, Canton Zurich, 1842; resigned, 1853; removed to Zurich, and then to Basel. He wrote, from the sources and in a scholarly manner, a series of biographies which constituted a church 212history down to pre-Reformation times, under the general title Die Kirche Christi und ihre Zeugen (24 vols., Zurich, 1842–58; 2d ed., 1860–79).