Sten Bodvar Liljegren, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Swedish philologist
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Place of Birth: Orrefors, Kalmar County, Sweden
About Sten Bodvar Liljegren
- Sten Bodvar Liljegren (8 May 1885 – 30 December 1984) was a Swedish Anglist.He was born in Orrefors, Sweden.
- Liljegren was Professor of English Philology at the University of Greifswald between 1926 and 1930.
- He became a professor at Columbia University in New York and was appointed in 1931 as professor in Leipzig.
- He was appointed in 1939 as professor of English at the Uppsala University.
- He became emeritus in 1951. Liljegren was member of the Faculty of Science Society in Lund, Faculty of Science Society in Uppsala and the Society of Sciences in Lund.
- In 1924 he founded the journal Litteris. Liljegren in his book Bulwer-Lytton's Novels and Isis Unveiled (1957) wrote that a main source for Helena Blavatsky's Theosophical ideas was Egypt and Isis Unveiled was heavily influenced by Edward Bulwer-Lytton's novels.
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