Knud Karl Krogh-Tonning
Norwegian theologist
Intro | Norwegian theologist | |
Places | Norway | |
was | Religious scholar Priest Theologian | |
Work field | Religion | |
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Birth | 31 December 1842, Stathelle, Bamble, Telemark, Eastern Norway | |
Death | 19 February 1911Christiania, Norway, Union between Sweden and Norway (aged 68 years) |
Knud Karl Krogh-Tonning (December 31, 1842 – February 19, 1911) was a Norwegian theologian, known for his conversion to Catholicism.
He was born at Stathelle, in the south of Norway, and graduated in 1861. He was manager of Læreskolen in Balestrand, and then in 1873 became Vicar of Årdal. After a number of other appointments he became pastor in Old Aker Church from 1886 to 1900. In autumn 1899 he applied to leave his position for reasons of conscience, and in 1900 he made public his conversion to Catholicism. His autobiographical En Konvertits Erindringer was published in 1906. He died at Kristiania, now Oslo, in 1911.
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