Carl Herman Levin

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Carl Herman Levin (born September 29, 1816 in Muskö ( Hanige parish ), † October 1, 1883 in Österhaninge ) was a Swedish pastor and author.

Life

Levin was the son of Per Ludvig Levin and his wife Lovisa Gustafva Strandman and brother of the doctor Per Axel Levin and Otto Ludvig Levin.

Levin studied philosophy at Uppsala University from 1835 and was ordained a priest in Stockholm in 1840 . He completed his studies in 1842 and in the same year became vicar in the Finnish parish of the Stockholm diocese and there in 1845 chaplain . Levin was awarded by the Swedish Academy in 1849 for his dissertation Om sambandet mellan den estetiska känslan och den religious . In that year he also became vicar in the parish of St. Maria Magdalena Church and in 1856 also chaplain here. A year later he became Vicar of the Church. Levin was secretary of the Pro Fide et Christianismo Society from 1858 to 1871, and in 1871 he was pastor in the municipality of Österhaninge with the parishes of the islands of Ornö , Utö and Nämdö in the diocese of Strängnäs .

Levin was married to Charlotta Wilhelmina Lakeshore from 1851.

Fonts

  • Poetiskt hafsskum från Sotaskären (1841)
  • Psaltare och Lyra (1843)
  • Runor från lifvets runestaf (1848)
  • Samfundet Pro fide et Chistianismo, hundraårigt minnesblad vid samfundets jubilation (1872)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carl Herman Levin . In: Herman Hofberg, Frithiof Heurlin, Viktor Millqvist, Olof Rubenson (eds.): Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon . 2nd Edition. tape 2 : L – Z, including supplement . Albert Bonniers Verlag, Stockholm 1906, p. 45 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
personal data
SURNAME Levin, Carl Herman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish pastor and author
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Muskö, Hanige municipality
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 1883
Place of death Österhaninge