Structures and Patterns of Religion (An Old and Rare Book)

Fustav Mensching studied Theology and Sanskrit at the University of Goettingen, Marburg and Berlin and got his Doctorate from Marburg in 1924. In 1927 he got qualified to teach General History of Religion at the Technical Hochschule in Braunschweig (Brunswick). In the same year he was appointed to the chair for the History of Religion at the Lettland State University in Riga. In 1936 he was appointed to teach at the University of Bonn and in 1942 he occupied the chair for Comparative Theology at the same University. In 1951 he was awarded an honorary Doctorate by the University of Marburg. In all his works Gustav Mensching deals with the questions of Theology and with the research into the great religions of the world.