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May 08, 1885 Orrefors, Kalmar County, Sweden Died on 30 Dec 1984 (aged 99)

Swedish philologist

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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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