Isak Collijn, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Isak Collijn

national librarian

Date of Birth: 17-Jul-1875

Place of Birth: Halmstad, Halland County, Sweden

Date of Death: 28-Mar-1949

Profession: librarian, bibliographer

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Isak Gustaf Alfred Collijn (17 July 1875 – 28 March 1949) was a Swedish 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 Uppsala University 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.He was a cousin of Ludvig Collijn.