Theodor Rensing

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Theodor Rensing (born August 1, 1894 in Waltrop-Leveringhausen ; † November 6, 1969 in Münster ) was a German historian and monument conservator .

Life

Theodor Rensing grew up in the Leveringhausen peasantry near Waltrop. He attended the elementary school in Leveringhausen and from 1904 the Humanist Gymnasium Borbeck , where he passed the Abitur in 1913. In the summer semester of 1913 he began studying modern languages ​​and Indo-European linguistics with a minor in history in Freiburg . He continued it in Munich and had to interrupt it in 1915 because he was called up for military service. In 1918 he resumed his studies, now majoring in history, in Münster and graduated in 1921 with a doctorate.

He then worked as a bookseller until he was hired on December 1, 1933 as a scientific assistant at the office of the provincial curator. In 1938 he was appointed head of inventory. In 1947 he was elected a full member of the Historical Commission for Westphalia . From October 1, 1949, he was acting head of the cultural care department at the Westphalian provincial administration.

In October 1952 he was appointed state curator to succeed Wilhelm Rave .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Second Peace of Westphalia and its effects under the government of Kings Wenzel and Ruprecht. Dissertation Münster 1921.
  • Johann Conrad Schlaun (= Westphalian art books , vol. 6). Friedrich Wilhelm Ruhfus, Dortmund 1936.
  • The Dortmund Dominican Monastery (1309–1816). Aschendorff, Münster 1936.
  • Adolf von Vagedes. Coppenrath, Münster 1941.
  • The Kappenberger Barbarossa head. In: Westfalen , Jg. 32 (1954), pp. 165-183.
  • The master of Schöppingen. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich and Berlin 1959.
  • Master builder next to and around Schlaun in the dioceses of Münster, Paderborn and Hildesheim. In: Elector Clemens August, sovereign and patron of the 18th century . Du Mont Schauberg, Cologne 1961, pp. 182–287.
  • On the genealogy of the Gröningers . In: Alois Schröer (Ed.): Monasterium. Festschrift for the 700th anniversary of the consecration of Paulus Cathedral in Münster . Regensberg Verlag, Münster 1966, pp. 137–148.

literature

  • Franz Petri : Theodor Rensing (August 1, 1894 to November 6, 1969). In: Westfalen , Jg. 47 (1969), pp. 101-110.
  • Bibliography Theodor Rensing . In: Westfalen , Vol. 53 (1975), pp. 811-815.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Franz Petri: Theodor Rensing (August 1, 1894 to November 6, 1969). In: Westfalen , Jg. 47 (1969), pp. 101-110.
personal data
SURNAME Rensing, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and monument conservator
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Waltrop-Leveringhausen
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 1969
Place of death Muenster