Rudolf Ehlers

Who was Rudolf Ehlers?

Rudolf Ehlers was a German theologian and clergyman born in Hamburg.

He received his education at the Universities of Heidelberg, Berlin and Göttingen. At Heidelberg, he was a student of Richard Rothe. Afterwards, he served as a pastor in Stolberg, and in 1864 relocated to the Protestant Reformed Church at Frankfurt am Main. In 1868 he was appointed Konsistorialrat.

In 1879 he became co-editor of the journal Zeitschrift fur praktische Theologie, and in 1884 was co-founder and vice-president of the Allgemeinen evangelisch-protestantischen Missionsvereins, today known as Deutschen Ostasienmission. In 1889 he was awarded with an honorary doctorate from the University of Jena.