He was president of Ursinus College, and did a translation and condensation of the Schaff–Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge.

[1] He graduated from Marshall College in 1837 and from Mercersburg Seminary in 1838, in which year he became a minister of the German Reformed Church.

During the American Civil War, he was a radical abolitionist, and a firm supporter of the Union cause.

In 1870, he became first president of Ursinus College, at Collegeville, Pennsylvania, which he had helped found.

Bomberger's work also incorporated information from other sources besides Herzog.