Jon Arvid Afzelius

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Jon Arvid Afzelius , (born August 26, 1856 in Västerås , † October 7, 1918 in Gothenburg ) was a Swedish textbook writer, grandson of Arvid August Afzelius . He was temporarily married to Davida Afzelius-Bohlin.

Life

Afzelius studied in Uppsala , Göttingen and England . In Göttingen he joined the Göttingen Wingolf in 1880 . He then found a job in 1882 at the Göteborgs Handelsinstitut, where he worked as a teacher until his death. Afzelius received an honorary doctorate in philosophy from Gothenburg University in 1916. He published several English language textbooks. Among other things, he developed new methods of phonetic pronunciation.

Works

  • Engelsk grammar for skolor… Norstedt, Stockholm 1905, OCLC 320037694 .
  • Engelsk uttalsordbok. 1909.
  • Svensk-engelsk synonymordbok. 1911.
  • Engelsk commercial correspondens for commercial color och självstudier. 17th edition. 1978, ISBN 91-24-13137-7 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 9. Jon Arvid A. In: Bernhard Meijer (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 1 : A-Armati . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1904, Sp. 320 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
  2. ^ Afzelius, 9. In: Theodor Westrin, Ruben Gustafsson Berg, Eugen Fahlstedt (eds.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 34 : Supplement: Aa – Cambon . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1922, Sp. 74 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
  3. ↑ Complete directory of Wingolf, Lichtenberg 1991
personal data
SURNAME Afzelius, Jon Arvid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish textbook writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Västerås
DATE OF DEATH October 7, 1918
Place of death Gothenburg