Word: soderblom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three of Harvard's graduate schools will have receptions for their first year students during the coming week. In addition the Theological School will have its opening service, which will be dedicated to the memory of Nathan Soderblom, Swedish Bishop who died this summer, tomorrow...
...their beneficences, the so-called Nobel Peace Prize. They made up lost time last "week by awarding the Peace Prize twice in succession: for 1929 to Frank Billings Kellogg, onetime janitor, lawyer, onetime U. S. Secretary of State; for 1930 to the Most Rev. Dr. Nathan Lars Olof Jonathan Soderblom, Archbishop of Upsala, primate of the Lutheran Church in Sweden, father of twelve. Each of these distinguished gentlemen will receive $46,430. U. S. newspapers cheered, for Mr. Kellogg is the third U. S. citizen to be raised to the Nobelity this year, together with Novelist Sinclair ("Red") Lewis, Bacteriologist...
Less obvious to the average U. S. citizen is the award of Dr. Soderblom. Newsgatherers recalled that their last story about him was when he dropped a key out of a rowboat after the funeral of the last of Sweden's famed Brahe family (TIME, June 30). There was no surprise, however, among theologians. Churchmen know Archbishop Soderblom as a scholar, linguist-he speaks ten languages, has written books in German, French, English, Swedish, Dutch-and an incessant worker for Church Unity and World Peace. In 1925 in an attempt to unite at least the Protestant sects of Christianity...
Archbishop Soderblom's second most important job is that of pro-Chancellor of the University of Upsala,* oldest of Sweden's universities, alma mater of Sweden's greatest, scene of the synod which marked the victory of Protestantism in Sweden...