Einar Thomassen

Who is Einar Thomassen?

Einar Thomassen is a Norwegian Professor in Religious Studies at the University of Bergen. He also has a position as an adjunct professor at The University of Aarhus.

Thomassen was born in 1951 in Bergen, and grew up in Laksevåg. He was taught Coptic, Greek and Latin already during high-school. He studied in Sweden, France, and Scotland. He now lives in Bønes with his wife, whom he met while studying Religious Studies in the 1970s. They have two sons. He is Mag. art, and Ph.D..

Einar Thomassen lectures in Christianity, Islam, Religion of the Antique and Classical World, pre-Islamic Middle-East, Syncretism and Method.

He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.