Andreas Brandrud (26 February 1868 – 14 June 1957) was a Norwegian professor, theologian and church historian.

Biography

He was born in

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as a son of farmer and merchant Torsten Brandrud (1837–1933) and Anna Bleken (1844–1879). In February 1897 he married

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's daughter Anna Broch Martens (1875–1966). He came from a

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family and studied theology at the University of Kristiania. He took the

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degree in 1892. He made a study trip to Germany, where he studied under

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(1859–1935) in

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and

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(1851–1930) in

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. He also studied in Italy, Denmark and the United Kingdom. He became an assistant at the

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in 1896, then a professor at the

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from 1897 to 1938. As a researcher, Brandrud had Norwegian church history after the Reformation as his primary focus. He was a fellow of the

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from 1898, received an

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. Brandrud was also admitted into the exclusive skiing-based social club

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in 1889. He served as deputy chairman from 1905 to 1910, and chairman from 1910 to 1912 and 1940 to 1949.

Selected works

*''Klosterlasse. Et bidrag til den jesuitiske propagandas historie i Norden'' (1895) *''Den kristne kirkes historie. Et grundrids'' (1915) *''Stavanger domkapitels protokol 1571–1630'' (1897–1901)

References

1868 births 1957 deaths People from Sør-Fron Norwegian historians of religion Historians of Christianity University of Oslo alumni Academic staff of the University of Oslo Order of the Polar Star SK Ull members Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters {{christianity-historian-stub