Andreas Brandrud

Who was Andreas Brandrud?

Andreas Brandrud was a Norwegian church historian.

He was born in Sør-Fron as a son of farmer and merchant Torsten Brandrud and Anna Bleken. In February 1897 he married dean's daughter Anna Broch Martens.

He took the cand.theol. degree in 1892. He became an assistant at the National Archives of Norway in 1896, then a professor at the Royal Frederick University from 1897 to 1938. He was a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters from 1898, received an honorary degree at Lund University and the Order of the Polar Star.

Brandrud was also admitted into the exclusive skiing-based social club SK Ull in 1889. He served as deputy chairman from 1905 to 1910, and chairman from 1910 to 1912 and 1940 to 1949.