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

Biography

Nord-Trøndelag Nord-Trøndelag (; "North Trøndelag") was a counties of Norway, county constituting the northern part of the present-day Trøndelag county in Norway. It bordered the old Sør-Trøndelag ("South Trøndelag") county as well as the county of Nordl ...

county,

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...

. He received his cand. theol. degree in 1911 and then studied ancient Christian theology and classical philology at the University of Breslau and the

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. In 1925 he received his theological doctorate from the

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. 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'' .

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