Excerpt from An Immigrant's Two Worlds: A Biography of Hjalmar Edgren Hjalmar Edgren's American odyssey after he reached the age of twenty-one included the varied careers of a Union army officer in the Civil War, graduate student and teacher at Yale, professor and clean at the University of Nebraska, translator of Sanskrit and American literature, and poet. But his American experience of more than two decades was accompanied with intermittent peri ods in Sweden where he was teacher at Lund University, professor and first ...
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Excerpt from An Immigrant's Two Worlds: A Biography of Hjalmar Edgren Hjalmar Edgren's American odyssey after he reached the age of twenty-one included the varied careers of a Union army officer in the Civil War, graduate student and teacher at Yale, professor and clean at the University of Nebraska, translator of Sanskrit and American literature, and poet. But his American experience of more than two decades was accompanied with intermittent peri ods in Sweden where he was teacher at Lund University, professor and first rektor of Go'teborgs ho'gskola, which became Goteborg University, member of the Nobel Institute related to the Swedish Academy awarding the Nobel Prize in literature, interpreter of American life to his countrymen, translator of world literature, and poet. Moreover, he was a good husband, father, and citizen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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