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As a Jesuit novice, Fr. Braunreuther earned a bachelor鈥檚 degree from BC in 1958. Fourteen years later, he joined the University as resident and staff life coordinator for the Housing Office, after having worked for a year as a chaplain at the Newton College of the Sacred Heart. When the college was consolidated with md传媒国产剧 College in 1975, Fr. Braunreuther鈥攂y then University chaplain and director of campus ministry鈥攚as appointed to a task force formed to make programmatic and other recommendations for the transition.

In the fall of 1976, University President J. Donald Monan, S.J., chose Fr. Braunreuther to work on a University Planning Council to examine student life at md传媒国产剧 College. Its objectives were to express the overall purposes of the Student Affairs division within the University鈥檚 mission; examine the goals of the Student Affairs departments and offices; and to assess the effectiveness of programs in achieving these goals. 聽

Fr. Braunreuther resigned as director of campus ministry in January of 1978 because, as reported by The Heights, he wanted 鈥渢o be a full-time pastoral person and less of an administrator.鈥� But he remained at BC as assistant chaplain, and in addition to his everyday duties in helping foster pastoral life on campus, in the early 1980s he began coordinating and leading service trips to Haiti for BC students. The volunteers fed, bathed, and cared for patients in a home for the destitute and dying, and performed similar duties at a residence for abandoned children.

In 1987, he and Assistant Chaplain Kerry Maloney launched the Urban Immersion Program, leading a group of undergraduates in a 10-day community service effort in md传媒国产剧 neighborhoods. Later, he co-organized a service trip over the semester break to a parish house in Ecuador.

Such experiences gave students a greater awareness of those less fortunate, which Fr. Braunreuther likened to 鈥渁 pebble in the shoe,鈥� as he explained in a 1983 md传媒国产剧 College Biweekly interview: 鈥淚f you鈥檙e not a compassionate person, this experience will make you one, and if you are, it will hurt like hell.鈥�

He added, 鈥淏C students are, relatively speaking, like nobility in terms of opportunity and health. One must ask, 鈥楤y chance of birth I am in a good place, now what can I do for those who have less?鈥濃��

Fr. Braunreuther鈥檚 leadership in service immersion led The Heights to include him in its 1985 list of nominees for honorary degrees at University Commencement (others included President Ronald Reagan, former President Jimmy Carter, artist Robert Guillemin, and rock star and humanitarian aid organizer Bob Geldof): 鈥淓xperiencing poverty firsthand, students quickly learn it differs from seeing pictures of the poor in a magazine. Some returning students claim the experience reshapes their future and are inspired to enter social work as a profession.鈥�

He also co-organized an annual retreat for graduating seniors at a Jesuit summer house in Cohasset, Mass.鈥攁 feature of the weekend, reported The Heights in 1994, was Fr. Braunreuther鈥檚 鈥渇amous lasagna鈥濃�攁nd gave lectures to BC students on topics in areas such as psychology and theology.

In 1988, Fr. Monan appointed Fr. Braunreuther as University representative to athletics. In this new role, he was the University鈥檚 liaison to all athletes, acting as their spiritual advisor and confidant, and saying Mass when teams were away from campus. In addition to attending all home football and basketball games, and as many away games as possible, he also was expected to help athletes fulfill their education-related responsibilities.

It was a natural fit for the tall, athletic Jesuit who had played sports as a student at Fairfield College Preparatory School in Connecticut as well as at BC. He remained active for some years in basketball, skiing, swimming, and tennis. Early on during his return to BC, he had taken part in an intramural basketball league as a member of the 鈥淰intage Wine鈥� team and, at age 53 at the time of the new appointment, still played basketball three times a week. He had been the BC men鈥檚 basketball chaplain for two years, and during that time had also said Mass for the football team four times (the Eagles were 4-0 in those games, reported The Heights).

The position of University representative to athletics was superseded in 1994, when Fr. Monan created the Athletic Advisory Board.

Fr. Braunreuther joined other campus Jesuits in donating time and energy to support the $125 million Campaign for md传媒国产剧 College, launched in 1988 to help fund aid for needy students; support improvements in facilities, libraries, and service programs; and empower the University鈥檚 response to societal dilemmas, among other goals.

鈥淓very little bit helps,鈥� said Fr. Braunreuther in a 1990 interview with Biweekly. 鈥淚鈥檓 uncomfortable putting my hand out and asking for money, but I feel very strongly that the Campaign is a direct continuation of BC鈥檚 traditional mission: giving kids a chance to get ahead, to have a better life. This University was founded on that idea, lest we forget.

鈥淭o me, the Campaign will be of enormous help with student scholarships,鈥� he added. 鈥淚 think that鈥檚 crucial, and that鈥檚 why my hand is out there.鈥�

After leaving md传媒国产剧 College in 1996, Fr. Braunreuther went to Baltimore, where he worked with homeless men. He later became campus minster at Loyola University Maryland and a minister for the Fairfield University Jesuit Community before joining the Campion Center in 2018. While there, he served the local parish, St. Julia鈥檚, presiding at Sunday Mass and giving lectures in person or via Zoom.

A native of Brooklyn, NY, whose family had strong German roots, Fr. Braunreuther鈥攁 fluent German speaker鈥攄id his philosophy studies in Germany after entering the Jesuit order following high school and spending his novitiate and juniorate at Shadowbrook in Lenox, Mass. During his preparation for the priesthood, he worked extensively with high school and college girls as a counselor, retreat director, and therapist.

Fr. Braunreuther undertook his theology studies at Weston College and, following his ordination, began doctoral studies at the University of Chicago; however, the combined theology/psychology program in which he enrolled was closed down, and after returning to New England, he eventually took the chaplain position at Newton College of the Sacred Heart.

He was the fourth of six children of John Adam and Anna Marie (Zimmerman) Braunreuther.