Arnold Norlind

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Arnold Norlind

Arnold Gottfrid Norlind (born June 17, 1883 in Vellinge , † February 17, 1929 in Järfälla , Stockholm County ) was a Swedish geographer, translator and writer .

Life

Arnold Norlind was born in 1883 as the son of pastor Lars Christenson and his wife Johanna Norlind in Vellinge, a municipality in the southern Swedish province of Schonen (Skåne) . Like his four siblings, he bore his mother's more distinctive name. After school he studied at the University in Lund , initial three-year 1903. The further studies in geography, astronomy, Romance languages, literature, art history, history, German and aesthetics were the bachelor's degree in 1912 with the Dr. phil. completed. He then worked as a lecturer in geography in Lund from 1912.

After the expiry of his teaching fellowship in 1922, Norlind finished teaching at the university and became a teacher at Birkagårdens Volkshochschule (folkhögskola) in Stockholm. In 1922 he married the writer Emilia Maria Fogelklou (1878–1972). Norlind was not granted a long life, he fell ill with tuberculosis and died at the age of 45.

Arnold Norlind's siblings also became known in part: his older brothers Ernst Norlind (1877–1952) as a painter and author; Tobias Norlind (1879–1947) as music historian, museum director and author. The other siblings were the older sister Laura Concordia Norlind (1875-1960) and the younger brother Josef Yngve Vallentin Norlind (1887-1976).

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In the first years of his work, scientific work on geography, explorers or colonization was his subject. After his travels, made out of geographical interest, a number of popular scientific works were created. His endeavor was not to write adventure stories, but to use his scientific knowledge of geography to depict the journeys of explorers such as Henrik sjöfararen or Fernäo de Magalhäes . The most important part of his work for Norlind were his works on Dante Alighieri , translations and, based on his own knowledge, reinterpretations of Dante's life and works from a philosophical and psychological perspective.

Works

  • 1912 The geographic development of the Rhine delta up to around 1500. A historical-geographic study
  • 1914 Some remarks on the climate of historical times: together with a list of medieval weather conditions
  • 1917 Grekiska hjältesagor (Greek heroic sagas)
  • 1918 Tre sagospel: Vinterierungen och fru Sol, Hertiginnan Havsbris, Prins Valter och Drömmens fé (three fairy-tale games: Winter King and Mrs. Sun, Duchess Sea Breeze, Prince Valter and the Dream Fairy)
  • 1918 The problem of the mutual relationship between land and water and its treatment in the Middle Ages
  • 1918 Henrik Sjöfararen: hansoman och hans karaveler (Heinrich the Navigator: his people and his caravel)
  • 1918 Järnriddarna rida till Jerusalem: en bok om första korståget (Iron Knights go to Jerusalem: a book about the first crusade)
  • 1920 Världsherradöme: Babylon-Rome-London
  • 1923 De stora geografiska upptäckternas tidevarv (The great geographical discoveries of the times)
  • 1924 Det senmedeltida Rom: världsstat och gudsstad (Late Medieval Rome: World State and City of God)
  • 1925 Dante
  • 1928 Från min veranda: meditationer (From my veranda: meditations) Stockholm. 1928, reissued in 1929, 1936, 1950, 1954, 1961 and 1993.
  • 1929 Skapande liv: Studier och bekännelser (Creative life: studies and confessions)
  • 1930 Världshistoria. Del 7, De geografiska upptäckterna och reformationen (1500 - 1560) (World history. Part 7, The geographical discoveries and the reforming) By Arnold Norlind and Hjalmar Holmquist.
Translations
  • 1917 Dante Alighieri. Om vatten och jord. Samlade Verk (Over water and earth. Collected works)
  • 1921–1930 Dante Alighieri's Gudomliga komedi (Dante's Divine Comedy )

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Swedish titles are freely translated into German.
personal data
SURNAME Norlind, Arnold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Norlind, Arnold Gottfrid (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish geographer, translator and writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Vellinge , Sweden
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 1929
Place of death Järfälla , Stockholm County , Sweden