Alv Kragerud (20 August 1932 – 21 April 2010) was a Norwegian priest and theologian. He was born in

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. He took his

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degree at the

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, and took practical-theological education at

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. He did research while working as a priest, and took his first doctorate with ''Der Lieblingsjünger im Johannesevangelium'' in 1958 and the second doctorate with the thesis ''Die Hymnen der Pistis Sophia'' in 1967. He was a professor at the

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, and a member of the

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. In addition to research in Christianity and the history of religion, he was skilled in the languages

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, Sumerian and

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. He died in April 2010.

References

1932 births 2010 deaths People from Aurskog-Høland Norwegian expatriates in Sweden 20th-century Norwegian Lutheran clergy Norwegian theologians University of Oslo alumni Academic staff of the University of Bergen Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters 20th-century Protestant theologians {{norway-academic-bio-stub