Bonhoeffer (surname)

Bonhoeffer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), German pastor, theologian, spy, anti-Nazi dissident, and key founding member of the Confessing Church
  • Karl Bonhoeffer (1868-1948), German neuroscientist and physician
  • Klaus Bonhoeffer (1901-1945), German jurist and resistance fighter against the Nazi régime who was executed after the July 1944 plot to kill Hitler
  • Emmi Bonhoeffer, wife of anti-Hitler activist Klaus Bonhoeffer
  • Tobias Bonhoeffer (born 1960), German neurobiologist

See also
  • Bonhoeffer family, a German family originally descending from Nijmegen
  • Bonhoeffer Botanical Gardens, botanical garden north of Seattle on the premises of the Freeborn Lutheran Church. They are named in honor of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran pastor and scholar, who was executed in April, 1945, in Nazi Germany's Flossenburg concentration camp
  • Bonhoeffer-van der Pol model named after Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer and Balthasar van der Pol. Now known as FitzHugh–Nagumo model
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