Hjalmar Sundén
Hjalmar Sundén (born November 28, 1908 in Eksjö , † December 30, 1993 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish theologian and university professor of religious psychology in Uppsala .
Sundén studied Protestant theology and was founded in 1933 as pastor of the Swedish Church ordained . In 1937 he acquired the title of licentiate in theology. In Paris he received his doctorate in 1940 with a thesis on the "Philosophy of Religions" by the French philosopher Henri Bergson , whom he interviewed personally.
At the beginning of his professional career, he devoted himself to the history of religion , taught at several high schools in the Stockholm area and as a pastor looked after a congregation. In 1959 he published his main work: "Religionen och rollerna; ett psykologiskt studium av fromheten" in Swedish. The book was published in 1966 under the title: The religion and roles in German. This book gave him a lectureship at Uppsala University in 1964, which was converted into a professorship in 1967. This made him the first professor of psychology of religion in the Scandinavian region.
Sundén's theory about the roles is still discussed by well-known experts today. David M. Wulff ( USA ) or Holm and Belzen from Finland scientifically examined Sunden's work at the end of the 1990s. In Albert Höfer's Gestalt pedagogy, Sundén's role theory is one of the works that prepared the Gestalt approach in religious education .
literature
- Sundén, DA Hjalmar . In: Vem är det. Svensk biografisk handbok 1977 . 33rd volume PA Norstedt & Söners Förlag, Stockholm 1976, ISBN 91-1766022-X , p. 969 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
- Sundén, DA Hjalmar . In: Hans Uddling, Katrin Paabo (ed.): Vem är det. Svensk biografisk handbok 1993 . 41. Vol. PA Norstedt & Söners Förlag, Stockholm 1992, ISBN 91-1914072-X , p. 1050 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Hjalmar Sundén in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Daniel Anders Hjalmar Sundén . In: Svenskt Biografiskt Lexicon . tape 34 , p. 260 (Swedish, sok.riksarkivet.se ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sundén, Hjalmar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sundén, Daniel Anders Hjalmar (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish theologian and university professor, university professor of religious psychology |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 28, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Eksjö |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 30, 1993 |
| Place of death | Stockholm |