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death (Feb. 18, 1546) she remained at Wittenberg, much of the time in poverty. Her death was due to an accident which occurred as she was on the way, with her children, to Torgau to escape the plague at Wittenberg.
Bibliography: W. Beste, Die Geschichte Katharinas von Bora, Halle, 1843; F. G. Hofmann, Katharina von Bora oder Luther als Gatte und Yater, Leipsic, 1845; A. Stein, Katharina von Bora, Luthers Ehegemahl, Halle, 1897; A. Thoma, Katharina von Bora, Berlin, 1900. Consult also the various biographies of Luther. The chief of the many libels concerning Luther's marriage is Eusebius Engelhard's (Michael Kuen) Lucifer Wittenbergensis, 2 vols., Landsberg, 1747-49.
BORBORITES, BARDELITES. See Gnosticism.
BORDELUMIANS : A separatistic sect formed at Bordelum, a village of Sleswick, about 1739, under the leadership of a pietistic Saxon theological student named David Bahr. They originally consisted of fifteen or twenty persons, and claimed to be saints who had advanced further than Paul according to Rom. vii, 24. Since they believed that tliey had received special gifts from God, they decried the Church as the house of the devil, and despised the sacramants. As being pure, to whom ail things were pure, they rejected marriage in favor of free love, and instituted a communism of property for their financial support. An edict of Christian VI, issued June 11, 1739, condemned the leaders to imprisonment; those who had led an immoral life were punished according to the laws, and the remainder were admonished. The leaders managed to escape the punishment, however, Bahr, who had seduced a married woman, fleeing to Jena. Expelled from that city, he returned to Holstein, and was imprisoned at Gliickstadt. Having become a cripple in consequence of the rough treatment to which he had been subjected in prison, he was released, and died wretchedly, still unconverted, at Bredstadt in 1743. His adherents caused much trouble to the pastor of Bordelum.
Paul Tschackert.
Bibliography: Acta historico-ecclesiastica, vol. v, part 29, p. 653 sqq., and Supplement, pp. 1014 sqq., 20 vols., Weimar, 1734-38, continued in 13 vols., till 1790.
BORDIER, ber"dye', HENRI LEONARD: Reformed Church of France; b. in Paris Aug. 8, 1817; d. there Aug. 31, 1888. He was educated at the Ecole de Droit and the lilcole des Chartes in Paris, and licensed in law and as paleographic archivist in 1S40; thereafter he devoted himself to historical studies. He was successively assistant to the historian Augustin Thierry; assistant in the Academy of Inscriptions; secretary par interim of the Ecole des Chartes; a member of the commission on the departmental archives of the minister of the interior (1846); archivist of the national archives (1850), and dismissed on the establishment of the Empire. He was, during the siege of Paris, on the commission upon the papers of the Tuileries; and in 1872 was nominated honorary librarian in the department of manuscripts in the Bibliotheque Nationale. He was for many years on the committee of the Society d'Histoire du Protestantisme Franeais, and prepared numerous works, noted for their accuracy. Among them may be mentioned: various notices in the Bibliotheque
de V Ecole des Chartes (Paris, 1841-86); Histoire generate de tons les depots d' archives existant en France (1855); Les figlises et monastbres de Paris (1856); an edition of the Libri miraculorum aliaque opera minora of Gregory of Tours, Latin text with French translation (4 vols., 1857-64); a French translation of the Historia Francorum of Gregory of Tours (2 vols., 1859-61); Les Inventaires des archives de l' Empire (1867); Une Fabrique de faux autographes (1869); Chansonnier huguenot du seizieme siecle (1869); L'Allemagne aux Tuileries, de 1850 a 1870, collection de documents tires du cabinet de I'Empereur (1872); La Saint-Barthelemy et la critique moderne (Geneva, 1879); L'Ecole historique de Jerome Bolsec (Paris, 1880); Nicolas Castellin de Tournay, refugie a Geneve, 1564.-1676 (1881); Description des peintures et autres ornements contenus dans les manuscrits grecs de la Bibliotheque Nationale (1885). With E. Charton he published in 1860: Histoire de France d'apres les documents originaux et les monuments de I'art de chaque epoque. At the time of his death he was engaged upon a new and enlarged edition of the brothers Eugene and Emile Haag's La France protestante (originally 12 vols., Paris, 1845-59), and had brought out the first five volumes (1877-86).
BOREEL, bo"reF, ADAM: Preacher and sectary; b. at Middelburg, in Zealand, 1603; d. in Amsterdam 1666. He was pastor of a Reformed congregation, but resigned his office, and became the leader of a separatistic party, which acknowledged no other religious authority than the Scripture. His work, Ad legem et testimonium (1645), attracted great attention. Here he developed that the written word of God, without any human commentary, was the sole means of awakening faith; that the Church had fallen completely away from the Lord; that the Christian ought to shun all connection with the Established Church, and confine himself to his private devotion, etc. His minor writings, fifteen in number, were collected at Amsterdam, 1683. His followers, known as Boreelists, never attained to much importance.
BORNEMANN, bor'ne-mon, FRIEDRICH WIL- HELM BERNHARD: German Lutheran theologian; b. at Lilneburg (68 m. n.n.e. of Hanover) Mar. 2, 1858. He was educated at the universities of Gottingen (Ph.D., 1S79) and Leipsic, and was successively tutor at Bremen (1879) and Medingen (1880). Two years later he became inspector of the seminary at Gottingen, and in 1SS4 was privatdocent for church history in the same university. In 1886 he was appointed inspector of the seminary for theological candidates at Magdeburg, where he became professor in the following year. From 1898 to 1902 he was professor of theology at Basel, and since the latter year has been pastor of the Luther Church at Frankfort. His works include In invest iganda monaeludus origine quibus de causis ratio habenda sit Origcnis (Gottingen, 1886); Die Unzulcingliclikcit des thcologisclien Stadiums (Leipsic, 1SS6; anonymous); Kirchcnideale und Kirchenrejormen (1SS7); Sehulandachten (Berlin, 1SS9); Jlittere Wahrheitcn (5th ed., Gottingen, lS(H); Untcrricht im Chrisfcntum (1891); Die Thessaloni-