American scholar, educator and literary historian
Adolph B. Benson , born Adolph Berndt Bengtsson , (November 22, 1881 – November 10, 1962) was an American scholar, educator and literary historian. Adolph Benson's research focused primarily on the study of Swedish-American culture.[ 1]
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Biography
Adolph Benson was born in Skåne , Sweden as the eldest of nine children. He emigrated to the United States during 1892 settling in Berlin, Connecticut . He graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut (Bachelor's degree . 1907), (Master's degree . 1910).
He taught at Columbia University , 1909-1911, at Dartmouth College 1911-1914 and at Sheffield Scientific School 1914-1920.
In 1920, he became extraordinary professor of German and Scandinavian languages and literature at Yale University .
He was chairman of Department of Germanic Languages at Yale University 1932-1944.
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His autobiography Farm, Forge and Philosophy: Chapters of a Swedish Immigrant's Life was published by the Swedish American Historical Society in 1961.[ 5]
The papers of Adolph Burnett Benson are available from Manuscripts and Archives at the Yale University Sterling Memorial Library in New Haven, Connecticut .[ 6]
Selected bibliography
Original works
The Old Norse Element in Swedish Romanticism (1914)[ 7]
Sweden and The American Revolution (1926) [ 8]
An American poet-enemy of Gustavus III of Sweden (1928) [ 9]
Swedish Rarities in the Yale University Library (1935)
Swedes in America, 1638-1938 with Naboth Hedin (1938)[ 10]
The will to succeed : stories of Swedish pioneers (1948)[ 11]
Americans from Sweden with Naboth Hedin and Carl Sandburg (1950)
American Scandinavian studies (1952) [ 12]
Farm, Forge and Philosophy: Chapters of a Swedish Immigrant's Life (1961)[ 13]
Translations
Sara Videbeck and the Chapel , by Carl Jonas Love Almqvist ; translation from the Swedish. (1919)[ 14]
America of the Fifties: Letters of Fredrika Bremer , by Fredrika Bremer ; translation from the Swedish. (1924) [ 15]
Pehr Kalm's journey to North America by Pehr Kalm ; translation from the Swedish. (1961)
References
^ Adolph Burnett Benson (1914) The Old Norse Element in Swedish Romanticism (Columbia University Press, Page 193)
^ Naboth Hedin. "Adolph Burnett Benson: In Memoriam" . Swedish-American Historical Quarterly (North Park University). Retrieved December 5, 2015 .
^ Benson, Adolph B. (1881-1962) Social Network and Archival Content)
^ Benson, Adolph B. Adolph Berndt Bengtsson (Innehållsförteckning till Svensk uppslagsbok page 606-607) Archived December 22, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
^ "Farm, forge, and philosophy; chapters from a Swedish immigrant's life in America" . Online books. Retrieved December 5, 2015 .
^ Adolph Burnett Benson papers Yale University Library
^ The Old Norse Element in Swedish Romanticism ebooksread.com
^ "Sweden and the American Revolution" . library.genealogical.com . Retrieved October 1, 2020 .
^ Benson, Adolph B. (1928). "An American Poet-Enemy Of Gustavus III of Sweden" . Scandinavian Studies and Notes . 10 (4): 104– 110. JSTOR 40915260 . Retrieved October 1, 2020 .
^ "Swedes in America, 1638-1938 / edited by Adolph B. Benson and Naboth Hedin" . National Library of Australia. Retrieved December 5, 2015 .
^ The Will to succeed; stories of Swedish pioneers . OCLC 6856524 . Retrieved October 1, 2020 – via WorldCat.
^ "American Scandinavian Studies" . C. Hagelstam Antikvariaatti . Retrieved October 1, 2020 .
^ Farm, forge, and philosophy; chapters from a Swedish immigrant's life in America . Chicago: Swedish Pioneer Historical Society, 1961. OCLC 2138991 . Retrieved December 5, 2015 .
^ "Benson, Adolph B. (Adolph Burnett), 1881-1962" . Online Books Page. Retrieved December 5, 2015 .
^ "America of the fifties: letters of Fredrika Bremer, selected and edited by Adolph B. Benson" . Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Library. Retrieved December 5, 2015 .
Other sources
The Chronicle (American Swedish Historical Foundation, Spring & Summer 1956)
External links
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