Adolf Törneros

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Adolf Törneros (born December 24, 1794 in Eskilstuna , † January 20, 1839 in Uppsala ) was a Swedish writer , philologist , university teacher and humanist .

Life

Törneros' father was a postmaster and organist in Eskilstuna and died when Törneros was nine years old. At the age of thirteen he began working as a tutor to help make a living. In 1812 he enrolled at Uppsala University . His arrival in Uppsala came at a time when people were beginning to talk about a “new school” in fiction and philosophy . The acquaintance with the literary magazine Phosphoros and Erik Gustaf Geijer's early treatises were decisive for Törneros' aesthetics and worldview . Törneros passed his exam with distinction in 1818 and worked the following year as an unpaid lecturer in Latin. After he made his way with private lessons and corrections student Latin writings nine years he was in 1828 by Johan traner for teacher nominated for literature and the humanities. After the Latin professor Carl Johan Lundvall had also left the university, Törneros was his successor in 1832.

Törnero's Latin teaching activity ended when he was commissioned to take over a free professorship for aesthetics. He reluctantly took on this job, but did it from the fall semester of 1829 to 1832. He benefited from his extensive knowledge of the Roman and Greek languages ​​as well as modern literature. He received the most fruitful literary impressions from Jean Paul and later from Goethe . He was based on the German prose writer and that is why he was also called "the Swedish Jean Paul". Törneros made the acquaintance of Atterbom , Geijer, Palmblad and others and was a welcome guest in those circles around Malla Silfverstolpe. Since he played the piano and was an expressive chamber vocal virtuoso , it also contributed to the fact that he was gladly invited.

His vacation trips took him to well-known families whose teachers he had been: Ulfsparre in Ekhamn, Trolle-Löwenska in Sjösa and Countess Löwens in Östergötland . Törneros told his travel experiences in letters to his friends, which are entertaining little genre pictures of reality, descriptions of nature and pieces from his soul. Shortly after Törneros' death a collection of these letters was published, because of which he is counted among Sweden's classic writers. His descriptions of nature show a strong empathy. The extraordinary personal interpretation of each landscape character make Törneros a remarkable and peculiar personality who was permeated by the aesthetic culture of Romanticism and who stands out from the many nature enthusiasts of that time.

Törneros died after a few weeks of illness, shortly after he had been elected rector of the university in 1839 . Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Erik Gustaf Geijer, Carl Edvard Zedritz and other contemporaries kept the memory of him alive. Adolf Törneros was buried in the old cemetery in Uppsala.

Works

Academic literature

  • Supplementa quaedam in lexica graeca recentiora (1818)
  • De Lactantii elocutione fere ciceroniana (1819)
  • De varia descriptione populi romani sub regibus (1826)
  • De finibus artium ingenuarum (1832)
  • Specimina critica in libros Ciceronis de legibus (1833)
  • Specimina critica in Ciceronis Brutum (1835–36)
  • De vi et usu praescriptionum in formulis praetoriis (1836)

Letters

  • Resebrev (" Reiseriefe "), selection and with an introduction by Per Wästberg, Stockholm, Atlantis, 2009 (published by the Swedish Academy)

items

  • Svensk litteraturtidning and Svenska litteraturföreningens tidning , Svea ( Om den cesthetiska contemplationens innehåll och gränser , 1831)
  • Scandia ( View på den latinska språklärans treatment i närvarande tid , 1835)
  • Mimer ( Om mythologiens begrepp , 1839).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Resebrev , Swedish Academy ( Memento of 22 March 2014 Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Törneros, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish writer, philologist, university teacher and humanist
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1794
PLACE OF BIRTH Eskilstuna
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1839
Place of death Uppsala