Rendtorff, Franz

RENDTORFF, FRANZ: German Protestant; b. at Gütergotz (a village near Potsdam) Aug. 1, 1860. He was educated at the universities of Kiel, Erlangen, and Leipsic from 1879 to 1883. He was Domkandidat at Berlin in 1883–84; pastor at Westerland-Sylt (1884–88); preacher at the theological seminary at Eisenach (1888–91), monastery preacher at Preetz (1891–96), and director of studies at the preachers' seminary in the same city (1896–1902); privat-docent for practical theology in the University of Kiel (1902–08); professor of the same (1908–1910); removed to Leipsic in the same capacity in 1910. He has written Die schleswig-holsteinischen Schulordnungen vom sechzehnten bis zum Anfang des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts (Kiel, 1902) and Die Taufe im Urchristentum im Lichte der neueren Forschungen (Leipsic, 1905).