1922 Apr 29Born in Breslau, Germany to Wilhelm and Magda Frankfurter
Frei; his father was on the medical faculty of the University of
Breslau19351938Attended
Friends' School, Saffron Walden, Essex, England1938Emigrated to United States1942B.S., North Carolina State College1945B.D., Yale Divinity School19451947Minister, First Baptist Church, North Stratford, New Hampshire1947Entered Graduate School of
Yale University1948Married
Geraldine Frost Nye -- children: Thomas (1952), Jonathan (1955), Emily
(1957)19501953Assistant Professor of Religion, Wabash College, Indiana19531956Associate Professor of
Theology, Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest1954Visiting Lecturer, Southern Methodist University1956Ph.D., Yale
University19561957Professor of Theology, Episcopal Theological Seminary of the
Southwest19571963Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Yale University19591960Morse Fellow; Fulbright
Award for research at the University of G�ttingen, German19631974Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Yale19661967American Association of
Theological Schools Fellowship and Yale Senior Faculty Fellowship for research
at Cambridge, England19701971Acting
Master, Silliman College19721980Master,
Ezra Stiles College19741988Professor of Religious Studies, Yale19751976Chairman, Council of Masters1976National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar director at Yale;
taught "Modernity as Temptation", course for college teachers1978George F. Thomas Memorial
Lecture, Princeton University1983Shaffer
Lectures, Yale Divinity School19831986Chairman, Department of Religious Studies, Yale1987Edward Cadbury Lectures, University of Birmingham,
England1988Sep 12DiedFrom the guide to the Hans Wilhelm Frei Papers, 1957-1992, (Yale University Divinity School Library)