Hjalmar Alving

Karl Hjalmar Alving , born June 3, 1877 in Kalmar , died August 5, 1958 in Stockholm , was a Swedish teacher and linguist mainly in Nordic languages.

After studying at Uppsala University and Gothenburg University, he defended his dissertation in 1916 in Uppsala on the dissertation The place of the grammatical subject in the narrative movement in Swedish: a linguistic historical study .

Alving then worked as a high school teacher , first at Gothenburg's higher school , then as a lecturer in Uppsala. From 1919 to 1929 he was the principal of Whitlockska Samskolan . He later received a senior lecturer position at Norra Real in Stockholm, where he remained until his retirement in 1942.

During the years 1929–1932, he published the standard work Swedish Literary History in three parts.

Alving is best known for his translation of Icelandic fairy tales , which was published in five volumes in 1935–1945. He also published linguistic historical studies and essays in stylistic subjects, as well as books about Uppsala and Kalmar.

Hjalmar Alvings was married to the author Fanny Alving . Their daughter was journalist Barbro Alving . She bequeathed her father's surviving writings to the University of Gothenburg's library .

He is buried in Ytterselö cemetery .