Tor Andræ
Tor Julius Efraim Andræ (Swedish: [ˈtuːr anˈdreː]; 9 July 1885 – 24 February 1947) was a Swedish clergyman, professor and scholar of comparative religion who served as Bishop of the Diocese of Linköping.[1]
The Right Reverend Tor Andrae | |
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| Bishop of Linköping | |
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| Church | Church of Sweden |
| Diocese | Diocese of Linköping |
| In office | 1936–1947 |
| Predecessor | Erik Aurelius |
| Successor | Torsten Ysander |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 9 July 1885 |
| Died | 24 February 1947 (aged 61) Linköping, Sweden |
| Nationality | Swedish |
| Spouse | Ellen Gustafsson (1913–1947) |
| Children | Håkan Andrae Staffan Andrae Anders Johan Andrae Carl Göran Andræ |
| Occupation | Bishop |
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.[2]
He became church pastor at Gamla Uppsala in 1924. Between 1927 and 1929, he served as professor of religious history at Stockholm University and then became professor of theological encyclopedia at Uppsala University. Andræ was a student of Nathan Söderblom, whom he succeeded as member of the Swedish Academy in 1932. He was appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Linköping in 1936 and was the same year briefly minister of education and ecclesiastical affairs in the short-lived cabinet of Prime Minister Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp. He died during 1947 in Linköping and was buried at Uppsala gamla kyrkogård.[3]
- His study of Muhammad
In 1985, Annemarie Schimmel remarked that until then only one study had "tried specifically to depict Muhammad's role in Islamic piety. Even today Tor Andrae's Die person Muhammeds in lehre und glaube seiner Gemeinde (1918) remains the standard work in this area, unsuperseded by any other major study, though complemented by random remarks in numerous modern work on Sufism. It is, however, unfortunately too little known even among Islamicists."[4][5]
References
- "Andræ, Tor Julius Efraim". Biografisk matrikel över Svenska kyrkans prästerskap. 1934. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
- "Andræ, Tor Julius Efraim, biskop, religionsvetenskapsman (1885–1947)". Svenska Akademien (in Swedish). Retrieved 1 April 2020.
- William A Graham. "Tor Julius Efraim Andræ". Religion Past and Present. doi:10.1163/1877-5888_rpp_SIM_00687.
- Annemarie Schimmel (1985). And Muhammad is his messenger: the veneration of the Prophet in Islamic piety. University of North Carolina Press. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-8078-1639-4.
- Tor Andrae, Mohammed. The man and his faith (New York: Charles Scribner and Sons 1936; reprint: Barnes and Noble, New York 1955), translated by Theophil Menzel from a 1932 German edition.
