Gustaf-Otto Adelborg, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Gustaf-Otto Adelborg

writer

Date of Birth: 28-Jul-1883

Date of Death: 18-Dec-1965

Profession: writer

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Gustaf-Otto Adelborg

  • Gustaf-Otto Adelborg (28 July 1883 – 18 December 1965) was a Swedish writer. He was born in Ludgo Parish, which is now part of Nyköping Municipality, became a student in 1908, studying in both Uppsala and Stockholm.
  • He was later employed at a second-hand bookshop in Stockholm. Adelborg resembles Søren Kierkegaard, Carl Jonas Love Almquist, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Vilhelm Ekelund in having published essays with primarily psychological content and religious meditations.
  • Among these are Om det personligt andliga (1907), VÃ¥ga, vedervÃ¥ga (1908) and the personal confession Afsides (1923). He criticised the Swedish academic environment in his book, VÃ¥ga, vedervÃ¥ga (Risk, jeopardize) published in 1908.
  • A polemic with the Swedish writer Fredrik Böök made his writing career difficult.He published very few works; his first three are hard to read, after which he evolved a clear language in which to express his convictions with "almost childlike seriousness".Gustaf-Otto Adelborg came from a Swedish noble family, Adelborg, that included some well-known members.
  • He was the brother of Fredrik Adelborg and Louise Adelborg.

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