Background
Boehner was born Heinrich Boehner in Lichtenau, Westphalia.
Boehner was born Heinrich Boehner in Lichtenau, Westphalia.
University of Münster.
In 1927 he was ordained as a priest, although he was so ill with tuberculosis he was not expected to live. While resting, he began his work as a medieval scholar by translating Étienne Gilson"s work on Saint Bonaventura. In the summer of 1940 Boehner moved to Saint Bonaventure College (now a university) where he lectured on Franciscan philosophy, and it was here that he began to build the Franciscan Institute into a center of international Franciscan scholarship.