Alfred Jensen (Slavist)
Alfred Anton Jensen (born September 30, 1859 in Hälsingtuna , Gävleborgs län , Sweden ; † September 15, 1921 in Vienna , Austria ) was a Swedish writer , translator , literary scholar , historian and Slavist .
Life
Jensen studied from 1879 at Uppsala University , which he left in 1884 without a degree. From 1884 to 1888 he worked for the Göteborg newspaper Handels-och Sjöfartstidning and from 1888 to 1890 foreign correspondent for the Sydsvenska Dagbladet in Berlin . He was then from 1890 to 1893 editor and correspondent of the foreign department for the trade and maritime magazine in Gothenburg and for these in Berlin, Stockholm and Vienna. At this time he also made extensive trips to the Slavic countries.
His knowledge of the Slavic languages was so excellent that he wrote literary works from Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Czech, Slovenian, Bulgarian and Serbo-Croatian by Nikolai Gogol , Ivan Turgenev , Alexander Pushkin , Michail Lermontow , Taras Shevchenko , Mychajlo Kozjubynskyj and Adam, among others Mickiewicz translated into Swedish. He also worked as a literary scholar and literary critic. His historical works dealt with Russian cultural history; among other things he wrote about Iwan Masepa .
From 1901 he lived in Stockholm and worked at the Nobel Institute of the Swedish Academy and from 1905 at the Stockholm Dagblad . In 1907 he received an honorary doctorate in philosophy from Uppsala University and in 1911 he became a member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society .
During a trip to the Balkans he died in Vienna and was buried in the cemetery in Inzersdorf .
Work (selection)
- Taras Shevchenko - A Ukrainian Poet's Life. Literary study by Dr. Alfred Jensen . Vienna 1916, archive.org (1921)
- Perelyzowana Enejida Kotljarewskoho, Перелицьована Енеїда Котляревського - Internet Archive , 1921 (Ukrainian)
- Slavia. archive.org , 1896
- Mazepa; Alfred Jensen, Ukrayinsky pysmennyk. Kiev 1992, ISBN 5-333-01141-9
literature
- Jensen, Alfred Anton . In: Theodor Westrin (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 12 : Hyperemi-Johan . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1910, Sp. 1348 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
Web links
- Books by Alfred Anton Jensen (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Artur Almhult: Alfred Jensen . In: Swedish Biographical Lexicon ; accessed on March 5, 2017 (Swedish)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jensen, Alfred |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jensen, Alfred Anton (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish Slavist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 30, 1859 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hälsingtuna , Gävleborgs Lan , Sweden |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 15, 1921 |
| Place of death | Vienna , Austria |