Albert C. Knudson


Albert Cornelius Knudson was a Christian theologian in the Methodist tradition, associated with Boston University and the school of liberal theology known as Boston personalism.

Biography

Albert Cornelius Knudson was born on January 23, 1873, in Grand Meadow, Minnesota. He was the son of Rev. Asle Knudsen and Synnove Knudsen, both of whom were immigrants from Norway. The family eventually moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota. Asle Knudsen regularly traveled by train to Lake Mills, Iowa to minister at the Danish-Norwegian Methodist Church there until shortly before his death in 1939.
Albert Knudson studied at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis and Boston University. He attended Jena University and Berlin University. After teaching briefly at the University of Denver and Baker University, Baldwin City, Kansas, and at Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania, he began his long career in Boston University where he later became dean of the Boston University School of Theology.

Personal life

Albert Knudson was married to Mathilde Johnson in 1899. He died on August 28, 1953, at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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