Althaus, Paul

ALTHAUS, PAUL: German Protestant; b: at Fallersleben (17 m. n.e. of Brunswick) Dec. 29, 1861. He was educated at the universities of Erlangen and Göttingen, and held various pastorates from 1887 to 1897, when he was appointed associate professor of practical and systematic theology at the University of Göttingen, becoming full professor two years later. He has written Die historische und dogmatische Grundlage der lutherischen Taufliturgie (Hanover, 1893) and Die Heilsbedeutung der Taufe im Neuen Testament (Gütersloh, 1897).