Eric W. Gritsch
American Lutheran ecumenical theologian and scholar
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- PhD Theology University of Chicago
- Doctorate Theology Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Eric W. Gritsch was an American Lutheran ecumenical theologian and Luther scholar. Early life and student years Gritsch was raised in a Lutheran pastor's family in Bernstein im Burgenland in Austria. His family was deeply affected by the Anschluss and the Second World War. His father died on a death march as a Russian prisoner of war, but Gritsch himself, who had been drafted into a Werwolf group, escaped capture by posing as a gypsy boy. He returned to Bernstein and graduated with Matura in 1950. The same year, he matriculated at the University of Vienna to study Protestant theology. In 1954 he received a Fulbright scholarship and came to Yale University for the academic year 1954/55. After going back to Austria to complete his ministerial training, he immigrated to the United States in 1957, initially for doctoral studies with Roland H. Bainton. His thesis was on Thomas Müntzer, the radical reformer.
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