Knud Karl Krogh-Tonning

Knud Karl Krogh-Tonning (December 31, 1842 – February 19, 1911) was a Norwegian theologian known for his conversion to Catholicism.

Biography He was born at Stathelle, in the south of Norway, and graduated in 1861. He was manager of Læreskolen in Balestrand, and then in 1873 became Vicar of Årdal Municipality. After a number of other appointments he became pastor in Old Aker Church from 1886 to 1900. In autumn 1899 he applied to leave his position for reasons of conscience, and in 1900 he made public his conversion to Catholicism. His autobiographical En Konvertits Erindringer was published in 1906. He died at Kristiania, now Oslo, in 1911.

Works His works include: Kirkelige vidnesbyrd om absolutionen, 1881 Om den ældste kirkelig apologi overfor det græsk-romerske hedenskabs tænkning, doctorate thesis, 1883 Den Christelige dogmatik: Fundamentallære, 1885 Christelig Opdragelselære, 1887 Die Gnadenlehre und die Stille Reformation, 1894 De Gratia Christi et de Libero Arbitrio Sancti Thomae Aquinatis, J. Dybwad, 1898 En Konvertits Erindringer, 1906 Katholisches Christentum, 1906 Die heilige Birgitta von Schweden, 1907

Translated into English Catholic Christianity and the Modern World; a Course of Sermons, B. Herder, 1916.

See also John Henry Newman

References Scholfield, J. Faber. "The Newman of Norway," The Catholic World, Vol. XCV, April/September 1912.

External links Nordisk Familjebok: Krogh-Tonning, Knud Karl, 1904–1926. Om Knud Karl Krogh-Tonning: Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon