Edwin Bjorkman, 1912 - 1923
Scope and Contents
13 letters written to Swedish-American journalist, critic, and translator Edwin Björkman from 12 different Scandinavian writers and other members of the intelligentsia in the first two decades of the 20th century. Correspondents are writer-dramatists Hjalmar Bergstrom (1868-1914), Gunnar Heiberg (1857-1929), Tor Harald Hedberg (1862-1931), Arthur Schnitzler (1861-1931), and Gustave Wied (1858-1914), writers and scholars Vilhelm Andersen (1864-1953), Johan Bojer (1872-1959), and Ludvig Nordstrom, novelist and filmmaker Otto Rung (1874-1945), psychoanalyst Poul Bjerre (1876-1964), politician Sigured Ibsen (1859-1930), son of the renown writer Henrik Ibsen, and artist Magda Pach (1884 - 1950) known for her portrait of fellow artist Frida Kahlo. The letters are in a mix of Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, German, and English and have not been translated.
Dates
- 1912 - 1923
Conditions Governing Access
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Biographical / Historical
Edwin August Björkman (1855-1951) was a Swedish-born journalist, critic, and translator born in Stockholm, where he lived until emigrating to the United States in 1891. He joined a Scandinavian colony in Minnesota, writing for newspapers to support himself, and later wrote for several papers in New York, served in the short-lived League of Nations’ news bureau and taught Scandinavian drama at Yale before finally settling in North Carolina, where he spent the remainder of his life. Björkman was a prolific writer and translator, publishing 10 novels and translating countless plays and other works into English from a variety of European languages, most notably the plays of Strindberg.
Extent
From the Collection: 30 Cubic Feet (68 boxes)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
From the Collection: Latin
From the Collection: French
From the Collection: Italian
From the Collection: Welsh
From the Collection: Danish
From the Collection: Swedish
From the Collection: Spanish
From the Collection: German
From the Collection: Norwegian
From the Collection: Persian
From the Collection: Japanese
From the Collection: Russian
From the Collection: Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Creator
- From the Collection: Scheetz, Nicholas B., 1952-2016 (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Georgetown University Manuscripts Repository
Lauinger Library, 5th Floor
37th and O Streets, N.W.
Washington DC 20057
speccoll@georgetown.edu