Bredenkamp, Konrad Justus
BREDENKAMP, KONRAD JUSTUS: German
Lutheran; b. at Basbeck (a village near Stade,
22 m. w.n.w. of Hamburg) June 26, 1847; d. at
Verden (21 m. s.e. of Bremen) Mar. 25, 1904.
He was educated at the universities of Erlangen,
Bonn, and Göttingen, and was pastor at Kuppentin,
Mecklenburg, from 1872 to 1878. He then resided
at Göttingen
for a year, and from 1880 to 1883
was privat-docent at Erlangen. In the latter year
he accepted a call to Greifswald as professor of
theology, and remained there until 1889, after which
he was honorary professor of Old Testament exegesis
at Kiel until his death. He wrote Der Prophet
Sacharja erklärt (Erlangen, 1879); Vaticinium quod
de Immanuele edidit Jesaias (vii, 1–ix, 6) (1880);
Gesetz und Propheten (1881); and Der Prophet
Jesaia erläutert (1887).