Anton Johnson Fridrichsen (4 January 1888 – 16 November 1953) was a Norwegian-born Swedish theologian.

Biography

He was born at

Meråker Meråker is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Stjørdalen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Midtbygda which is about west of Storlien in Sweden and east of the town of Stjør ...

Trøndelag Trøndelag (; sma, Trööndelage) is a county in the central part of Norway. It was created in 1687, then named Trondhjem County ( no, Trondhjems Amt); in 1804 the county was split into Nord-Trøndelag and Sør-Trøndelag by the King of Denmar ...

, Norway. He became cand. theol. in 1911 and then studied ancient Christian theology and classical philology at the

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and the

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. In 1925 he received his theological doctorate from the

University of Strasbourg The University of Strasbourg (french: Université de Strasbourg, Unistra) is a public research university located in Strasbourg, Alsace, France, with over 52,000 students and 3,300 researchers. The French university traces its history to the ...

. He was appointed professor of

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at the

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from 1928. Among his works are ''Hagios-Qadoš'' from 1916, and his thesis from 1925 ''Le Problème du miracle dans le christianisme primitif'' .

References

1888 births 1953 deaths People from Meråker People educated at the Trondheim Cathedral School Norwegian theologians Swedish theologians University of Strasbourg alumni Uppsala University faculty Norwegian emigrants to Sweden Naturalized citizens of Sweden Burials at Uppsala old cemetery 20th-century Lutherans {{Sweden-academic-bio-stub