FRENSSEN, GUSTAV (1863- ), German author, was born
at Barlt Oct. 19 1863, and was educated at the universities of
Tübingen, Berlin and Kiel. He took orders and from 1892 to
1902 was pastor at Hemme, taking his degree as doctor of theology
at Heidelberg in 1903. But he had already for some years
been known as a writer of novels, and in 1902, a year after his
great success with Jörn Uhl (1901), he gave up his pastorate and
devoted all his time to literature. His work in fiction includes
Die Sandgräfin (1895, 3rd ed. 1902); Die drei Getreuen (1898); Hilligenlei (1905); Peter Moor's Fahrt nach Süd-West (1906); Klaus Henrich Baas (1909) and Die Brüder (1918). He also published sermons (Dorfpredigten, 1899-1902), and two plays, Das Heimatsfest (1903) and Sönke Erichsen (1912).