Gustaf Cederschiöld

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Johan Gustaf Christoffer Cederschiöld (born June 25, 1849 in Stockholm , † May 5, 1928 in Lund ) was a Swedish linguist and dictionary editor .

Life

The son of the civil servant Gustaf Cederschiöld and his wife Wilhelmina, b. Borg, married a distant relative, Lovisa ( Lova ) Widegren (born 1860 in Västerstad, Malmöhus län ) in 1880 . The couple had two children who reached adulthood: Gustaf Wilhelm (born 1882 in Lund, died 1959 in Örgryte, linguist and high school teacher) and Mathias Gunnar , (born 1887 in Västerstad, died 1949 in Jönköping , painter, writer , as a fencer participant in the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam, businessman in Paris).

In 1868 Cederschiöld began studying philology at Lund University , where he took the first exam ( filosofie kandidat ) in 1873 , received his doctorate in 1874 and was a docent for Nordic languages from 1875 to 1883 . In 1870 and 1871 he went on study trips to Denmark and Germany, in 1877 and 1878 to Germany, England and France. 1882–90 he was the principal of a Gothenburg girls' school ( Göteborgs nya elementärläroverk för flickor ); In addition, he was the director of studies at Kjellbergska flickskolan from 1885–86 , especially for the teachers ' seminar there. 1885-88 he was a member of a Kgl. Committees to evaluate teaching at private girls' schools. Even though he mainly took up school work to support his family, as can be seen from his correspondence with Hugo Gering , it was in this environment that he began to write school books together with Valborg Olander . When Hugo Gering suggested that he should give it up in favor of scientific work in the area of Old Norse , Cederschiöld contradicted him and explained the importance of this educational work as greater than that of a new saga edition (letter of January 1, 1897). From 1889–94 he was again docent at Lund University and worked at Svenska Akademiens Ordbok and, from 1893–1914, finally professor for Nordic languages at Gothenburg University, the forerunner of today's university.

Cederschiöld's linguistic publication was very comprehensive, versatile and forward-looking; He was active in the area of ​​Old Norse (among other things, co-editor of the Old Norse Saga Library ), in the area of ​​contemporary language (among other things on the language of women and on puns) and Swedish as a written language, he excelled as an editor of textbooks (including Svensk språklära för folkskolor och allmänna läroverkens lägra klasser ) and wrote numerous reviews for newspapers (including Göteborgs Handels- och Sjöfartstidning ). In 1885 he was elected to the Kungliga Vetenskaps- och Vitterhetssamhället i Göteborg , in 1904 to Det Norske Videnskabs Selskabet (today the Norwegian Academy of Sciences ) in Oslo. In 1910 he became a member of the I Danish Academy of Sciences ( Videnskabernes Selskab ), in 1919 the Lundenser Humanistic Science Society Humanistiska vetenskapssamfundet and in 1911 honorary member of the Swedish Literary Society in Finland and in 1915 of Hið Islenska Bókmentafjelag . In 1902 he received the Royal Prize ( Kungliga Priset ) of the Swedish Academy .

literature

Web links

Project Runeberg : Writings by Gustaf Cederschiöld

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Cederschiöld, Gustaf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cederschiöld, Johan Gustaf Christoffer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish linguist and dictionary editor
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 1928
Place of death Lund