Hans-Peter Hasenfratz

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 Evangelical Theology 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. Hasenfratz was considered a leading authority on Germanic paganism, on which he wrote widely.

Selected works Die religiöse Welt der Germanen, 1994 Der Tod in der Welt der Religionen, 2009 Barbarian Rites: The Spiritual World of the Vikings and the Germanic Tribes, 2011