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Eric Julius Biörner
Eric Julius Biörner (modern Swedish spelling ''Erik Julius Björner'') was born on 22 July 1696 in the Swedish parish of Timrå in Medelpad and died in 1750.Herman Hofberg, 'Björner, Erik Julius', in ''Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon'', 2nd edn (1906), https://runeberg.org/sbh/bjornerj.html. He was a state official and a scholar of ancient history. Biography The son of the sheriff Mauritz Björner and Anna Katarina Teet, Biörner began to study at Uppsala University in 1715. Biörner was a faithful disciple of Olaus Rudbeck and his teachings about Sweden's ancient history, which Peter Fjagesund has characterised as an 'ambitious and highly speculative project of constructing a heroic national past' for Sweden.Peter Fjagesund, ''The Dream of the North: A Cultural History to 1920'', Studia imagologica, 23 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2014), p. 164. In 1717, when he was 21, Biörner published a fifty-page, Latin dissertation entitled ''De Suedia boreali'' ('About Northern Sweden'). This 'di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timrå
Timrå () is a locality and the seat of Timrå Municipality in Västernorrland County, Sweden with 10,443 inhabitants in 2010. It is located about 13 km north of Sundsvall (a town with a metropolitan area of some 100,000 inhabitants), and could arguably be considered a satellite to that town. The two closest cities (Sundsvall and Härnösand) share one airport, Midlanda, that is geographically located in Timrå. Indalsälven, one of Sweden's largest rivers with a length of 430 km, meets the Gulf of Botnia in Timrå. In Sweden, Timrå is mainly known for its ice hockey club Timrå IK, which, as of season 2021/22 plays in the Swedish top division SHL. In 1995, Swedish artist Bengt Lindström constructed the Y, a 30 meter high sculpture located in Timrå. Local legend says that Sörberge, on the north side of the town, is haunted by a tall man wearing a very large coat called 'Stor Bubbas'. Climate Timrå has historically had a subarctic climate, but it has in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |