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About Alv Kragerud
- Alv Kragerud (20 August 1932 – 21 April 2010) was a Norwegian priest and theologian. He was born in Høland.
- He took his cand.theol.
- degree at the University of Oslo, and took practical-theological education at Uppsala University.
- 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 University of Bergen, and a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
- In addition to research in Christianity and the history of religion, he was skilled in the languages Greek, Hebraic, Egyptian, Coptic, Sumerian and Old Norse.
- He died in April 2010.
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