Adolph B. Benson

Adolph B. Benson, born Adolph Berndt Bengtsson, (November 22, 1881 - November 10, 1962) was an American scholar, educator and literary historian. Adolph Benson's research focused primarily on the study of Swedish-American culture.^[1][2]

Biography

Adolph Benson was born in Sweden and immigrated to the United States where he received his university education. In 1914, he became associate professor of German language and literature at Yale University. In 1920, he became extraordinary professor of German and Scandinavian languages and literature.^{[3] [4]} The papers of Adolph Burnett Benson are available from Manuscripts and Archives at the Yale University Sterling Memorial Library in New Haven, CT.^[5]

Selected Bibliography

Original works

• Sweden and The American Revolution (1926)
• An American poet-enemy of Gustavus III of Sweden (1928)
• Houghton's The legend of St. Olaf's kirk (1928)
• Swedish Rarities in the Yale University Library (1935)
• Swedes in America, 1638-1938 with Naboth Hedin (1938)
• The will to succeed : stories of Swedish pioneers (1948)
• Americans from Sweden with Naboth Hedin and Carl Sandburg (1950)
• American Scandinavian studies (1952)
• Farm, Forge and Philosophy: Chapters of a Swedish Immigrant's Life (1961)

Translations

• Sara Videbeck and the Chapel, by Carl Jonas Love Almqvist; translation from the Swedish. (1919)
• America of the Fifties: Letters of Fredrika Bremer, by Fredrika Bremer; translation from the Swedish. (1924)
• Pehr Kalm's journey to North America by Pehr Kalm; translation from the Swedish. (1961)

References

Other Sources

• ’’ The Chronicle (American Swedish Historical Foundation, Spring & Summer 1956)

External links

• The Journal of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study : Adolph B. Benson
• Project Runeberg: translation of Carl Jonas Love Almqvist's novel Sara Videbeck and The Chapel
• The Old Norse Element in Swedish Romanticism (1914)