Leif Grane

Leif Grane (born January 11, 1928 in Lyngby , † March 22, 2000 in Copenhagen ) was a Danish Lutheran church historian . He was a specialist in Luther research and the history of the Reformation .

Leif Grane grew up in Lyngby as the son of the engineer Jens Ludvig Grane and Emma Karoline Regine Grane nee. Christensen.

From 1946 to 1953 Grane studied Protestant theology at the universities of Copenhagen , Lund and Tübingen . During his study visits to Lund and Tübingen, he specialized in Luther's exploration of Occamism , supported by Ragnar Bring and Gerhard Ebeling . In 1962 he did his doctorate in Copenhagen with the topic: Contra Gabrielem: Luther's discussion with Gabriel Biel in the Disputatio Contra scholasticam theologiam . From 1964 to 1988 Grane was Professor of Church and Dogma History at the University of Copenhagen. In 1968/69 he held a visiting professorship at the University of Marburg and in 1995/96 a visiting professorship in Berlin.

In Modus loquendi theologicus: Luther's Struggle for the Renewal of Theology (1515–1518) Grane (1975) examined Luther's way of working as a theologian. The third international monograph Granes, Martinus noster: Luther in the German Reform Movement 1518–1521 appeared in 1994 and was Granes last major contribution to Luther research. Shortly before his death, an anthology was published in 1999 with 13 articles from 1968 to 1991, which provide an overview of the breadth of Granes' research into the history of the Reformation: Reformation studies: contributions to Luther and the Danish Reformation .

Grane wrote standard works on the Confessio Augustana .

Leif Grane received honorary doctorates from the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (1980), the University of Oslo (1986), the University of Helsinki (1990) and the University of Reykjavík (1997).

literature

• Steffen Kjeldgaard-Pedersen: Necrologist - Leif Grane . In: Københavns Universitet, Årbog 2000 , pp. 105-107. ( PDF )