Lars Johan Danbolt

Lars Johan Danbolt (18 October 1895 – 7 June 1981) was a Norwegian priest.

He was born in Bergen as a son of tanner Ole Dominicus Danielsen (1863–1941) and Gesine Gauslaa (1866–1964), and brother of the professors Erling and Niels Danbolt. He finished his secondary education in 1914 and took the cand.theol. degree at the University of Oslo in 1919. In 1921 he married Benny Elisabeth Gabrielsen.

After serving briefly as a clergyman in Bergen and studying languages and history in Grenoble, he joined the mission in Madagascar in 1922. In 1927 he became a theology teacher at the Lutheran School of Clergy in Fianarantsoa, where he later served as rector from 1932 to 1939. He released a two-volume work on Luther in the Malagasy language in 1930 and 1935, and edited the local Lutheran church magazine from 1928 to 1930 and 1932 to 1938.