Thekla Knös

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Thekla Knös, 1870

Thekla Levinia Andrietta Knös (born July 17, 1815 in Uppsala , † March 10, 1880 in Växjö ) was a Swedish author , poet and translator .

Life

Thekla Knös was the daughter of Professor Gustaf Knös , who taught at Uppsala University, and his wife Alida Maria Olbers. She grew up in a wealthy and educated environment that gave her good foreign language skills and literary education. After the death of her father in 1828, mother and daughter moved to Uppsala . They lived in poor financial conditions and were dependent on donations, yet they ran a literary salon in which Thekla continued her education. Among the visitors to the salon who encouraged Thekla in her literary beginnings were Erik Gustaf Geijer , Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom , Adolf Fredrik Lindblad , Israel Hwasser and Hans Järta . Knös spoke English , German and French , and to a certain extent also Italian , and thus earned her living by translating; she also gave language lessons.

Thekla Knös got her first translation assignment from a publishing house in 1847 when she was supposed to translate Charles Dickens ' Das Heimchen am Herd (1845) into Swedish . In 1851 Knös began to write his first own works. For her poetry series Ragnar Lodbrok , she was the only woman in the history of Sweden to win the Grand Prize of the Svenska Academies . Many of her stories and poems have been set to music, the most common of her works are still the compositions by Adolf Fredrik Lindblad for her work Drömmarne . In 1868 Thekla Knös again won the Grand Prix of the Svenska Academies for her sonnet cycle Pagen . In addition to poems, children's songs, legends and notes on social life in Uppsala at that time are part of Knö's work.

She spent the last eleven years of her life in a mental hospital after suffering from recurring depression since her mother's death in 1855. The works from this period were only published posthumously. Thekla Knös died at the age of 64 on March 10, 1880 in Växjö . She was buried in the Old Cemetery in her hometown of Uppsala.

Works (selection)

Poems and novels

  • 1851: Drommarne
  • 1851: Ragnar Lodbrok
  • 1852: dictator I.
  • 1852: Elfvornas qvällar
  • 1853: dictator II
  • 1855: Konvaljerna , with Daniel and Louisa Müller
  • 1855: Fyrväpplingen , with Daniel and Louisa Müller and Fredrika Bremer
  • 1868: Pages
  • 1880: Efterlemnade anteckningar

Translations

Awards

  • 1847: Grand Prize of the Svenska Academies for Ragnar Lodbrok
  • 1868: Grand Prix of the Svenska Academies for Pages

literature

  • Ingrid Elam: "Det lilla fågelredet: om Thekla Knös", Höganäs 1993
  • Lars Elleström: "Thekla Knös - en idealrealistisk ironiker?", Lund 1996
  • Axel Krook: "Tekla Levinia Andrietta Knös". Svea Folk Calendar 1881
  • Christina Sundström: "Looking at the friade: Thekla Knös versberättelse" Ragnar Lodbrok "jämförd med Esaias Tegnérs" Frithiofs saga "", Swedish annual 1984

Web links

  • Thekla Knös in the Svenskt Oversattarlexikon (in Swedish)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Knös, Thekla | Nordic Women's Literature. (No longer available online.) In: nordicwomensliterature.net. Archived from the original on October 2, 2015 ; accessed on September 30, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / nordicwomensliterature.net
personal data
SURNAME Knös, Thekla
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knös, Thekla Levinia Andrietta (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish author, poet and translator
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH Uppsala
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 1880
Place of death Vaxjo