Anrich, Gustav Adolf

ANRICH, GUSTAV ADOLF: German Lutheran; b. at Runzenheim (a village of Lower Alsace) Dec. 2, 1867. He was educated at the universities of Strasburg, Marburg, and Berlin, and in 1894 became privat docent at Strasburg. He was pastor at Lingolsheim, Lower Alsace, from 1896 to 1901, when he became director of the Theologischer Studienstift, Strasburg. Since 1903 he has been associate professor of church history at Strasburg. He has written Das antike Mysterienwesen in seinem Verhältniss zum Christentum (Göttingen, 1894); Clemens und Origenes als Begründer der Lehre vom Fegefeuer (Tübingen, 1902); and has edited Die Anfänge des Heiligenkults in der christlichen Kirche of E. Lucius (1904).