| Tor Andrae | |
| Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Reverend |
| Bishop of Linköping | |
| Term: | 1936–1947 |
| Diocese: | Diocese of Linköping |
| Predecessor: | Erik Aurelius |
| Successor: | Torsten Ysander |
| Birth Date: | 9 July 1885 |
| Birth Place: | Vena, Sweden |
| Death Place: | Linköping, Sweden |
| Nationality: | Swedish |
| Occupation: | Bishop |
| Church: | Church of Sweden |
| Spouse: | Ellen Gustafsson (1913–1947) |
| Children: | Håkan Andrae Staffan Andrae Anders Johan Andrae Carl Göran Andræ |
Tor Julius Efraim Andræ (in Swedish ˈtuːr anˈdreː/; 9 July 1885 – 24 February 1947) was a Swedish clergyman, professor and scholar of comparative religion who served as Bishop of the Diocese of Linköping.[1]
Andræ was born at Vena parish in Hultsfred Municipality in Kalmar County, Sweden. He came from a clerical family. He was the son of pastor Anders Johan Andræ and Ida Nilsson. He studied theology at Uppsala University, where he completed his Ph.D. in 1917. As a historian of religion, his particular interest lay in the early history of Islam, particularly its Jewish and Christian origins, and in the psychology of religion, but he also combined these interests in the study of early Islamic mysticism.[2]
He became church pastor at Gamla Uppsala in 1924. Between 1927 and 1929, he served as professor of religious history at Stockholm University and then became professor of theological encyclopedia at Uppsala University. Andræ was a student of Nathan Söderblom, whom he succeeded as member of the Swedish Academy in 1932. He was appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Linköping in 1936 and was the same year briefly minister of education and ecclesiastical affairs in the short-lived cabinet of Prime Minister Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp. He died during 1947 in Linköping and was buried at Uppsala gamla kyrkogård.[3]