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Ronald F. Thiemann, a 39-year-old Lutheran minister, said he would work to weave together the practical and theoretical strands of religious scholarship that have been torn apart during the past century...
...striving to reunite the Divinity School's preachers and academic historians, Thiemann told about 250 theologians and school supporters at the Memorial Church ceremony that he will attempt to give the graduate institution the prominence it held during Harvard's early years, when theology was central to the liberal arts education...
...addition to finding top-notch professors, Thiemann will work to attract good students and maintain the last few years' upsurge in applicants, said Dean of Students Guy V. Martin. The student body has grown 20 percent over the last five years to 450, and applications have jumped 15 percent over the last year, according to Martin...
...Thiemann, an ordained Lutheran minister, comes to Harvard after 10 years of teaching and administration at Haverford, a Quaker School. He received his B.A. from Concordia Senior College in Indiana and three graduate degrees from Yale. He was not available for comment yesterday...
Hanson described Thiemann as "energetic and industrious" and "an administrative expert...