STENTRUP, FERDINAND. — Jesuit, theologian, and forerunner of freedom in education, b. in Münster on 8 July 1831, d. at Kalksburg on 15 August 1898.
A student at the German College in Rome (1850–58) and ordained a priest in 1856, he entered the Society of Jesus in 1858; after teaching philosophy at Pressburg, he went on to teach theology at Innsbruck (1868–93).
The long years of study and teaching yielded several important volumes of praelectiones, including: De Deo uno (1878), De Verbo Incarnato (2 vols., 1882–89), De Trinitatis mysterio (1891). Together with Fr. J. Weller, in 1877 he founded the Zeitschrift für katholische Theologie, which he directed for a long time and to which he contributed several series of valuable articles: Begriff der Hypostase, Zur Lehre von der Genugthuung Christi, Der Staat und die Schule.