Isak Gustaf Alfred Collijn (17 July 1875 – 28 March 1949) was a

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bibliographer and publisher. He enrolled as a student in 1893, and graduated with a degree in philosophy in 1902, with the treatise ''Les suffixes toponymiques dans les langues française et provençale''. He was employed as a lecturer at

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in 1905, and as chief librarian at the same university in 1910. In 1914, Collijn commenced editing the librarians' periodical ''Nordisk tidsskrift för bok- och biblioteksväsen''. From 1927 to 1931, Collijn was

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. He was a cousin of

Ludvig Collijn Ludvig Collijn (20 November 1878 – 4 October 1939 in Stockholm) was a chess writer and chairman of the Swedish Chess Federation from 1917 to 1939. At the first Nordic Chess Championship held in Stockholm 1897, Collijn responded consistently ...

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