Renz, Franz

RENZ, rents, FRANZ: Roman Catholic; b. at Altenstadt (38 m. s.w. of Augsburg) Oct. 3, 1860. He received his education at the gymnasium and high school at Dillingen and at the University of Munich; was ordained priest in 1884 and served as city chaplain at Nördlingen, 1884–85; was prefect at the boys' seminary at Dillingen, 1885–91; subregent at the theological seminary at Dillingen, 1891–97; director of the boys' seminary there, 1899–1901; regent of the theological seminary at the same place, 1901–03; went to Münster as professor of dogmatic theology, 1903; and to Breslau in the same capacity, 1907. He is the author of Opfercharakter der Eucharistie nach der Lehre der Väter und Kirchenschriftsteller der ersten drei Jahrhunderte (Paderborn, 1892); and Die Geschichte des Messopfer-Begrifs, oder die alte Glaube und die neuen Theorien über das Wesen des unblutigen Opfers (2 vols., Freising, 1901–02).