Oscar Levertin
Oscar Ivar Levertin (born July 17, 1862 in Socken Gryt, municipality Valdemarsvik near Norrköping , † September 22, 1906 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish writer .
Life
Levertin studied in Uppsala from 1882 to 1887 . There he also became a lecturer in literary history in 1889 . Ten years later he was appointed professor of the same subject.
With Verner af Heidenstam he turned against naturalism . As a literary critic for the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet , Levertin mainly influenced Sweden's neo-romanticists . Levertin's own poetry is often very symbolistically exaggerated.
Works
- Dictator (1901)
- Conflicter (1885)
- Legender och visor (1891)
- Nya digter (1894)
literature
- Frederik Böök: Minne av Oscar Levertin . Norstedt, Stockholm 1950.
- Carl A. Fehrmann: Levertin's lyric . Gleerup, Lund 1945.
- Oscar Levertin . 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. 44 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Oscar Levertin in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by Oscar Levertin in the Gutenberg-DE project
- Studies on the history of farce and farceurs since the Renaissance up to Molière . Reprint Geneva 1970
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Levertin, Oscar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Levertin, Oscar Ivar (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 17, 1862 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Socken Gryt, Valdemarsvik (municipality) |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 22, 1906 |
| Place of death | Stockholm |