Education
Coming from a clerical family, Tor Andræ studied Theology at Uppsala University, where he completed his Doctor of Philosophy in 1917.
Coming from a clerical family, Tor Andræ studied Theology at Uppsala University, where he completed his Doctor of Philosophy in 1917.
He became professor of the History of Religions at the University College of Stockholm in 1927, and in Uppsala two years later. He was appointed bishop of Linköping in 1936 and was the same year briefly Minister for Ecclesiastical Affairs (an archaic title which in reality meant Minister of Education) in the short-lived cabinet of Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp. In 1985, Annemarie Schimmel remarked that until then only one study had "tried specifically to depict Muhammad"s role in Islamic piety.
lieutenant is, however, unfortunately too little known even among Islamicists.".
Swedish Academy]
Andræ was a student of Nathan Söderblom, whom he succeeded as member of the Swedish Academy in 1932.