Paul Petter Waldenström
Swedish theologian
Died when: 78 years 359 days (947 months)Star Sign: Cancer
Paul Petter Waldenström (alternately spelled "Paul Peter") (20 July 1838 – 14 July 1917) was a Swedish theologian who became the most prominent leader of the free church movement in late 19th century Sweden.
Waldenström was born in Luleå in northern Sweden, son of a district physician.He began his academic studies at Uppsala University in 1857, completed his Ph.D. degree there in 1863, and was ordained a priest in 1864.
He had been employed as an adjunct in the (the secondary school in Växjö) already in 1862 and in 1864, when his doctorate qualified him for this, received a lecturership in Christianity, Greek and Hebrew at the in Umeå.
From 1874 until 1905 he was lecturer in the same subjects at the in Gävle.He was awarded a Doctor of Theology degree from Yale University in 1889 and was awarded the laurel for a second time as a jubeldoktor ("jubilee doctor") in Uppsala in 1913.
