Sven Stolpe

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Sven Stolpe around 1929, at the time of his literary debut

Sven Johan Stolpe (born August 24, 1905 in Stockholm , † August 26, 1996 in Filipstad ) was a Swedish writer, translator, journalist and literary critic .

life and work

Sven Stolpe's literary debut took place around 1929 with a collection of essays. In 1930 the novel In the waiting room of death appeared , in which he describes his stay in the years 1927/28 in the German sanatorium in Agra in Ticino , which at that time was under the direction of the chief physician Hanns Alexander . In the early 1930s, Stolpe took positions for internationalism and against aestheticism . At the same time he was a member of the Oxford Group , a Christian revival movement that called for moral armament . At the beginning of the 1940s he became involved, among others with his friend, poet Bertil Malmberg , against National Socialism and criticized the oppression in the Soviet Union . In 1947 he converted to Catholicism. In 1959 his dissertation on Queen Christina of Sweden was published under the title Från stoicism till mystik ( From Stoicism to Mysticism ), which abdicated in connection with her own conversion to Catholicism. He also wrote biographies about Joan of Arc and St. Birgitta . From 1945 to 1961 he was a literary critic for the newspaper Aftonbladet . His autobiography I look back - I look ahead was translated into German by Rita Öhquist .

family

In 1931 he married the author and translator Karin Maria von Euler-Chelpin (1907-2003), daughter of the chemist and Nobel Prize winner Hans von Euler-Chelpin and the natural scientist Astrid Cleve . The couple had four children: Staffan Stolpe, Lisette Schulman, Monica Rennerfelt († 1996) and Benkt Stolpe.

literature

  • Birger Christoffersson: Sven Stolpe och den litterära debatten . Stockholm, Bonnier 1956.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Sven Stolpe in the National Cyclopedin
  2. Dance of death in a prime position  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.wanderweb.ch  
  3. Lars Lönnroth and Sven Delblanc (eds.) Vid Fronten: Sven Stolpe Den svenska litteraturen , p. 79, 1989