Career
During his career he served as a Regimentarzt (regimental medical doctor) in Kölane In 1866, Stephan Schulzer von Müggenburg named the fungi genus Bonordenia in his honor. The genus Bonordeniella was named after him by Albert Julius Otto Penzig and Pier Andrea Saccardo (1901).
Bonorden was the author of numerous mycological taxa, the following are some of the genera that he circumscribed:
Fusicolla (1851).
Hormomyces (1851). Cornicularia (1851), syn. Clavulinopsis. Polythecium (1861), syn.
Fusicoccum. Byssitheca (1864), syn.
Rosellinia.