Sven Møller Kristensen
Sven Møller Kristensen (born November 12, 1909 , † August 3, 1991 ) was a Danish literary historian , critic and sociologist , who was awarded both the Søren Gyldendal Prize and the Georg Brandes Prize .
Life
After attending school, Møller Kristensen studied literary history; At that time he was already writing music reviews on jazz music as well as lyrics such as Sangen om Larsen and was working as a jazz pianist with the composer Bernhard Christensen. In 1938 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on the subject of impressionisms i dansk prose 1870-1900 .
In the following years he wrote numerous articles on the history of literature in specialist journals and specialist books. With his two-volume work Digteren og Samfundet i Danmark i det 19. Aarhundrede , published in 1942 and 1945, he founded research on the sociology of literature in Denmark.
In addition, he dealt with contemporary literature in the period after the Second World War , on the one hand from 1945 to 1953 as a literary critic for Land og Folk , the daily newspaper of Danmarks Kommunistiske Parti , and on the other hand in his books Amerikansk litteratur 1920-47 (1948) and Dansk literature 1918-50 (1950).
In 1953 he accepted a professorship for Nordic literature at the University of Aarhus , before he was professor for Nordic literature at the University of Copenhagen between 1964 and 1979 .
Møller Kristensen, who was awarded the Søren Gyldendal Prize in 1959, wrote numerous literary theoretical , works-analytical and literary historical works on Romanticism such as Den dobbelte eros (1966) in addition to his teaching activities . In 1965 he was one of the co-authors of the book En modern humanisme, alongside Svend Erik Stybe , Tom Fenchel and others .
In 1970 he was awarded the Georg Brandes Prize for his essays in the sociology of literature. Later the books Den store generation (1974) about writers like Johannes Vilhelm Jensen and Martin Andersen Nexø , Den kødelige rationalisme: Digtning, musik, opdragelse, kultursociologi: artikler og vers 1936-79 (1979) and Georg Brandes were published. Critics, Liberalists, Humanists (1980), a comprehensive account of the life and work of the literary critic, philosopher and writer Georg Brandes .
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Møller Kristensen, Sven |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kristensen, Sven Møller |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish literary historian, critic and sociologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 12, 1909 |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 3, 1991 |