Tor Andræ
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Swedish scholar
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Tor Andræ's Degrees
- PhD Physics Uppsala University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Tor Julius Efraim Andræ was a Swedish clergyman, professor and scholar of comparative religion who served as Bishop of the Diocese of Linköping. Biography Andræ was born at Vena parish in Hultsfred Municipality in Kalmar County, Sweden. He came from a clerical family. He was the son of pastor Anders Johan Andræ and Ida Nilsson. He studied theology at Uppsala University, where he completed his Ph.D. in 1917. As a historian of religion, his particular interest lay in the early history of Islam, particularly its Jewish and Christian origins, and in the psychology of religion, but he also combined these interests in the study of early Islamic mysticism.
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