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Hans Urs von Balthasar: Biographical Sketch
1905
Born in Lucerne, Switzerland, on August 12.
1917–1923
Gymnasium (secondary school) at the Benedictine boarding school in Engelberg (4 years) and at the Jesuit boarding school Stella Matutina in Feldkirch, Austria (2 1/2 years).
1924
Swiss federal diploma in Zurich (maturité fédérale).
1924–1928
Study of German language and literature in Zurich, Vienna, and Berlin.
University degree obtained in 1928.
1927
Ignatian Exercises of election in Wyhlen (near Basel) under the direction of Friedrich Kronseder, SJ.
1928
Ph.D. magna cum laude in German language and literature with the dissertation: Geschichte des eschatologischen Problems in der modernen deutschen Literatur [History of the Eschatological Problem in Modern German Literature], privately published in 1930.
1929
Entry into the novitiate of the Society of Jesus in Tisis, Austria.