Gísli Brynjúlfsson
Gísli Gíslason Brynjúlfsson (born September 3, 1827 in Ketilsstaðir á Völlum , † May 29, 1888 in Copenhagen ) was an Icelandic writer . He is considered the first political poet in Iceland.
Life
Gísli was the son of a pastor and attended grammar school in Bessastaðir until 1845 . Then he went to Denmark to study law and philology in Copenhagen . Together with Jón þórðarsson Thoroddsen , he published political writings there. From 1848 he was a scholarship holder in the Arnamagnean Collection until he was appointed lecturer in Icelandic studies in 1874.
His work includes political essays dealing with Icelandic, Danish and foreign politics, as well as political poems and love poetry . He wrote mostly in Icelandic , but also individual poems in Danish , German and English . He also translated poems into Icelandic , especially from ancient Greek and English. Among the poems transmitted by Gísli are some by George Gordon Byron , who was one of his major influences as a poet.
Gísli's poems appeared in anthologies and magazines during his lifetime. It was not until 1891 that a selection of his poems appeared posthumously in book form.
literature
- Josef Calasanz Poestion: Icelandic poets of modern times in characteristics and translated samples of their poetry , Leipzig 1897
- Horst Bien (Ed.): Meyers Taschenlexikon Northern European Literatures, Leipzig 1978
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gísli Brynjúlfsson |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gísli Gíslason Brynjúlfsson (full name); Brynjúlfsson, Gísli Gíslason (wrong name form) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Icelandic writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 3, 1827 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ketilsstaðir á Völlum |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 29, 1888 |
| Place of death | Copenhagen |