Sigurd Agrell

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Per Sigurd Agrell (1881-1937).
Sigurd Agrell's grave in Norra kyrkogården cemetery in Lund.

Per Sigurd Agrell (born January 16, 1881 in Rämmens bruk ( Värmland ), † April 19, 1937 in Lund ) was a Swedish poet , translator, runologist and professor of Slavic studies at Lund University .

Live and act

Agrell's parents were the factory owner from Örebro, Bruksägare Frans Vilhelm Agrell (1843–1900) and Ida Vendela Örtenholm (1851–1928). He had five sisters and two brothers.

Agrell began writing poetry at the age of sixteen, at which time he was attending school in Örebro . After his school days in Norrmalm , which he finished at Norrmalms latinläroverk, the Latin school there in 1898 with the school leaving certificate , Agrell began studying at Uppsala University , Uppsala universitet . He finished his studies with a licentiate in 1907. He then continued his academic career at Lund University, where in 1908 he began to write his doctoral thesis on the concept of aspect in the Polish language. He was awarded his doctorate in 1909 and a short time later he became a lecturer at the same university. He translated a number of Russian books, such as works by the Russian writer , poet and translator Iwan Alexejewitsch Bunin , but also the translation by Lev Nikolajewitsch Tolstoy's Anna Karenina , completed in 1925, was for a long time considered the Swedish reference translation .

Agrell was habilitated as professor for Slavic languages in 1921 . He was married to Anna Elvira Osterman; they were the parents of the military psychologist Jan Agrell and the zoologist Ivar Agrell . After his death in 1937 he was buried in the Norra kyrkogården cemetery in Lund.

Agrell was one of the first to attempt a scientifically sound definition and differentiation of the terms type of action and aspect .

Works (selection

  • Aspect change and action type formation in Polish verbs. A contribution to the study of the Indo-European Preverbia and its meaning functions. In: Acta Universitatis Lundensis. New series Volume 4, No. 2, 1908 (dissertation).
  • Intonation and final in Slavic. 1913.
  • On the Slavic phonology. 1915.
  • Slavic phonetic studies. 1917.
  • Runornas talmystik och dess antika förebild. 1927.
  • The origin of runic writing and magic . In: Axel Kock, et al. (Ed.): Arkiv för nordisk filologi (ANF) . New episode, volume 39 (= band 43 of the complete edition). CWK Gleerups förlag, Lund 1927, p. 97–109 (multilingual, journals.lub.lu.se [PDF] reprint).
  • Rökstenens chiffergåtor and andra runologiska problem. 1930 ( runeberg.org ).
  • Senantik mysteriereligion och nordisk runmagi: en inledning i den nutida runologiens basic problem. 1931.
  • The late antique alphabet mysticism and the runic series. 1932.
  • Lapptrummor och runmagi: tvenne chapter ur trolldomsväsendets historia. 1934 ( runeberg.org ).
  • The Pergamene magic disk and the tarot game. 1936.
  • The origin of the runic script. 1938.

literature

  • Nils Håkanson: Sigurd Agrell, 1881–1937. In: Svensk översättarlexikon. Södertörns Högskolebibliotek. ( oversattarlexikon.se ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm och Ida Agrell on agrell.info
  2. ↑ Biographical data on the mother Ida Vendela Örtenholm (1851–1928)
  3. ^ P Sigurd Agrell. In: Svenskt biografiskt lexikon. Stockholm 1918, p. 282 ( sok.riksarkivet.se ).
personal data
SURNAME Agrell, Sigurd
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Agrell, Per Sigurd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish Slavist, poet, translator and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Rammens bruk
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1937
Place of death Lund