Frei, Hans W.

• 1922 Apr 29: Born in Breslau, Germany to Wilhelm and Magda Frankfurter Frei; his father was on the medical faculty of the University of Breslau
• 1935 - 1938 : Attended Friends' School, Saffron Walden, Essex, England
• 1938: Emigrated to United States
• 1942: B.S., North Carolina State College
• 1945: B.D., Yale Divinity School
• 1945 - 1947 : Minister, First Baptist Church, North Stratford, New Hampshire
• 1947: Entered Graduate School of Yale University
• 1948: Married Geraldine Frost Nye -- children: Thomas (1952), Jonathan (1955), Emily (1957)
• 1950 - 1953 : Assistant Professor of Religion, Wabash College, Indiana
• 1953 - 1956 : Associate Professor of Theology, Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest
• 1954: Visiting Lecturer, Southern Methodist University
• 1956: Ph.D., Yale University
• 1956 - 1957 : Professor of Theology, Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest
• 1957 - 1963 : Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Yale University
• 1959 - 1960 : Morse Fellow; Fulbright Award for research at the University of G�ttingen, German
• 1963 - 1974 : Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Yale
• 1966 - 1967 : American Association of Theological Schools Fellowship and Yale Senior Faculty Fellowship for research at Cambridge, England
• 1970 - 1971 : Acting Master, Silliman College
• 1972 - 1980 : Master, Ezra Stiles College
• 1974 - 1988 : Professor of Religious Studies, Yale
• 1975 - 1976 : Chairman, Council of Masters
• 1976: National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar director at Yale; taught "Modernity as Temptation", course for college teachers
• 1978: George F. Thomas Memorial Lecture, Princeton University
• 1983: Shaffer Lectures, Yale Divinity School
• 1983 - 1986 : Chairman, Department of Religious Studies, Yale
• 1987: Edward Cadbury Lectures, University of Birmingham, England
• 1988Sep 12: Died

From the guide to the Hans Wilhelm Frei Papers, 1957-1992, (Yale University Divinity School Library)