Amalia Björck
Anna Ingeborg Amalia Björck (born April 14, 1880 in Winbergs moder, Falkenberg municipality ; † December 18, 1969 in Vinberg ) was a Swedish writer and poet .
Life
Björck was born in the Vinberg parish as the fourth of eight children of pastor Gustaf Ludvig Björck (1841–1911) and his wife Maria von Vicken (1854–1931). She attended the girls' elementary school and later the higher teacher training college in Stockholm . In 1902 she was hired as a teacher at a girls' primary school in Majorna, a district of Gothenburg . She took part in summer courses in Lund (1915) and Uppsala (1919), studied in Copenhagen in 1916 and undertook study trips to Germany during the summer holidays of 1903, 1906, 1909, 1913, 1917 and 1921. Further trips took her to Prague , Vienna and Zurich in 1923 .
She wrote articles for the magazines Ord och bild , Hertha and Idun , among others .
Works
- Trotsare och längare , 1910
- Löjtnant Loke , 1911
- Dikt och bikt , 1913
- Blomsterkungen på Hammarby , 1922
literature
- Knut Norborg: Göteborgs stift 1885-1949, Biografisk matrikel över stiftets prästerskap . 1949.
- NS Lundström: Svenska kvinnor i publicly verksamhet . 1924.
- Sveriges Släktforskarförbund (ed.): Sveriges dödbok 1901-2009, (Cd-rom) .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ludvig Björks efterlämnade papper. Stockholm Royal Library and Swedish Research Library , accessed May 23, 2018 (Swedish).
- ↑ Amalia Björck's efterlämnade papper. Stockholm Royal Library and Swedish Research Library, accessed May 23, 2018 (Swedish).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Björck, Amalia |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Björck, Anna Ingeborg Amalia (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish writer and poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 14, 1880 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Winbergs moder, municipality of Falkenberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 18th December 1969 |
| Place of death | Vinberg |