Erik Peterson

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According to Wikipedia, Erik Peterson Grandjean was a German Catholic theologian,patrologist and Church historian. Biography Erik Peterson was born in Hamburg. He studied theology from 1910 to 1914 in Strasbourg, Greifswald, Berlin, Basel and Göttingen, where he defended his doctoral dissertation in 1926. He was initially an evangelical Christian influenced by pietism and Søren Kierkegaard. Through the influence of phenomenology in Göttingen, Edmund Husserl, Adolf Reinach, Hedwig Conrad-Martius, Hans Lipps, Theodor Haecker, Max Scheler, Carl Schmitt, Jacques Maritain and the Liturgical Movement, he opened up to the Catholic world. He converted to Catholicism in 1930 and settled in Munich then Rome. In 1947 he became professor of Church history and patrology at the Pontifical Institute for Christian Archaeology in Rome. In 1960, the year of his death, he received honorary doctorates from the University of Bonn and the University of Munich .

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What Schools Are Affiliated With Erik Peterson ?

Erik Peterson is affiliated with the following schools:

• Humboldt University of Berlin
• University of Marburg
• University of Göttingen
• University of Tübingen
• University of Greifswald
• University of Bonn