Swiss religious scholar (1938–2016)
Hans-Peter Hasenfratz (22 February 1938 – 15 December 2016) was a Swiss religious scholar who was Professor of Religious Studies at the Ruhr University Bochum. He was a leading authority on the phenomenology of religion and Germanic paganism.
Biography.
Hans-Peter Hasenfratz was born in Zürich on 22 February 1938. Hasenfratz studied at at the University of Zurich, where Eduard Schweizer was his foremost teacher. He received his Ph.D. in 1974. His thesis, which was on the phenomenology of religion, is considered to have been of groundbreaking nature in the field. From 1985 to 2003, Hasenfratz was Professor of Religious Studies at the Ruhr University Bochum. Hasenfratz was considered a leading authority on Germanic paganism, on which he wrote widely.
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