Kristianstad
Kristianstad (, ; older spelling from Danish ''Christianstad'') is a city and the seat of Kristianstad Municipality, Scania County, Sweden with 40,145 inhabitants in 2016. During the last 15 years, it has gone from a garrison town to a devel ...
– December 2, 1961 in
Copenhagen
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) was a
Swedish
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Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically:
* Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland
** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...
professor of literary history at
Lund University
, motto = Ad utrumque
, mottoeng = Prepared for both
, established =
, type = Public research university
, budget = SEK 9 billion An extensive bibliography with Swedish titles is found in the Swedish Wikipedia
Biography
Fredrik Böök became a philosophy graduate at
Lund University
, motto = Ad utrumque
, mottoeng = Prepared for both
, established =
, type = Public research university
, budget = SEK 9 billion Henrik Schück
Henrik Schück (2 November 1855 – 3 October 1947) was a Swedish literary historian, university professor and author.
Biography
Johan Henrik Emil Schück was a professor at the Lund University 1890–1898. He was a professor at Uppsala Univer ...
, Böök was for decades the most influential (and feared) Swedish literature scholar and critic. He reviewed books for the newspaper '' Svenska Dagbladet'', succeeding
Oscar Levertin
Oscar Ivar Levertin (17 July 1862, Norrköping – 22 September 1906) was a Swedish poet, critic and literary historian. Levertin was a dominant voice of the Swedish cultural scene from 1897, when he started writing influential high-profil ...
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...
, Böök actively supported the cause of Germany as a belligerent power. After the war he lost his dominating role in the literary field. His biography was written in 1994 by
Svante Nordin
Per Svante Gudmund Nordin (born April 18, 1946) is a Swedish historian of ideas and author. He is a professor of history of ideas at Lund University.
With his dissertation ''Interpretation and method. Studies in the explication of nature'' (19 ...
.
Personal life
In 1907, Fredrik Böök married Tora Olsson. Their son
Klas Böök
Klas Erik Böök (10 March 1909 – 5 January 1980) was a Swedish diplomat and public servant who served as Governor of the Swedish National Bank from 1948 to 1951 and was Swedish ambassador in various countries between 1951 and 1972.
Early life
B ...
(1909–1980) became head of the
Bank of Sweden
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Etymology
The first part of the word ''riksbank'', ''riks'', stems from the Swedish ...
and later an ambassador.
Works translated into English
Source:
*''
Verner von Heidenstam
Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam (6 July 1859 – 20 May 1940) was a Swedish poet, novelist and laureate of the 1916 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was a member of the Swedish Academy from 1912. His poems and prose work are filled with a great joy ...
, author of "The Charles men"'' (1920)
*''Sweden of today : a survey of its intellectual and material culture'', edited by Magnus Blomstedt & Fredrik Böök (1930)
*''An eyewitness in Germany'', translated from the Swedish by Elizabeth Sprigge and Claude Napier (1933)
*'' Hans Christian Andersen : a biography'', translated from the Swedish by George C. Schoolfield (1962)