About Åke Ohlmarks: Swedish Writer and Scholar (1911 – 1984)
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Oak Allmark 1938.
Oak Joel Allmark (June 3, 1911 – June 6, 1984) was a Swedish writer, translator and religious scholar. From 1941 to 1945 he was a lecturer at the University of Greifswald. In 1944 he founded the Institute of Religion there with Wilhelm Koepp, a member of the German Christian Church. His most notable contribution to the field was his 1939 study of shamanism. As a translator, he is known for Swedish versions of the Icelandic Edda, works by Shakespeare and works by JRR Tolkien. Lord of the Ringsthe Quran and the works of Dante, Nostradamus and others.
Profession
Ohlmarks was born in Kristianstad, Sweden, the son of wholesalers Joel Ohlmarks and Anna-Lisa Larsson. He received his Philosophy License in 1935 and his Doctor of Philosophy in 1937. Ohlmarks was a Swedish lecturer in Tübingen from 1933 to 1934 and Reykjavik from 1935 to 1936. From 1941 to 1945 he was a lecturer and associate professor of Swedish in Greifswald. From 1950 to 1959, Olmax was director of the manuscripts department at Europafilm, visiting professor in Zurich in 1965, and director of the institute in Rheinklingen in 1966. die up In Zurich in 1966.
He is the president of the Nordic Association of Linguists (Föreningen nordiska filologer) from 1931 to 1934 in Lund and the Swedish-Baltic Cooperative Academic Association (Akademiska föreningen för svensk-baltiskt samarbete) from 1938 to 1940. Ohlmarks is secretary of religious community science (Religionsvetenskapliga samfundet) in Lund in 1936 and the community Ad patriam illustrandam in 1963.
Translations of Tolkien’s works
Ohlmarks translation of Tolkien’s writings Lord of the Rings was strongly disliked by the author, prompting him to write his own A Guide to Names in The Lord of the RingsNot only did Olmark invent many of his own modes of expression, but he also greatly liberalized the content of Tolkien’s work, both shortening many parts of the work and inserting his own interpretations.
Tolkien was also unhappy with the title sagan omlingenThe Legend of the Lord of the Rings.
due to harsh criticism of his translation Lord of the RingsCo-authored by Tolkien himself and Swedish Tolkien fanatics, Olmark became hostile to the “Tolkien phenomenon” in the late 1970s and published a book titled “Tolkien and the Black” in 1982. Magic book, expounding on the conspiracy theories linking Tolkien and Tolkien fanaticism with Nazi mysticism.
Despite criticism and controversy, Olmark’s translation remains the only Swedish translation. Lord of the Rings until 2004.
personal life
In his second marriage, in 1954, he married Letty Steenstrup (b. 1919), daughter of Erling Steenstrup and Ruth Strandnaes. In his third marriage, he married Adolf Suter von Schwyz and his wife’s daughter, editorial assistant Monica Suter (born in 1969). 1940) married. Ohlmarks died in 1984 at Crist di Niardo in Brescia, Italy.
publication
Academic
- 1936, Isländska hov och gudahus, in: Bidrag until nordisk filologi tillägnade Emil Olson den 9 juni 1936, S.339-355.
- Totenerweckung, Eddaliedern, 1936, in: Arkiv för nordisk filologi 52, S 264-297.
- 1937, Heimdalls Horn and Odins Auger. Studien zur nordischen und vergleichenden Religionsgeschichte, Erstes Buch (I-II) Heimdallr und das Horn, Lund.
- 1939, Studien zum Problem des Schamanismus, Lund.
- 1939, Anmärkningar och genmäle angående Heimdall, in: Arkiv för nordisk filologi 54, S. 354-363.
- 1939, Arktischer Schamanismus und altnordischer Seiðr, in: Archiv für Religionswissenschaft 36, S. 171-180.
- 1941, Stellt die mythische Bifrost den Regenbogen oder die Milchstrasse dar? Eine textkritisch-religionshistorische Untersuchung zur mythographischen Arbeitsmethode Snorri Sturlusons, (Meddelande fån Lunds astronomiska observatorium, Ser. II Nr. 110), Lund.
- Darth Grabschiff in 1941. Studien zur vorgeschichtlichen nordischen Religionsgeschichte, i: Zeitschrift für systematische Theologie 18, S. 150-158.
- In 1943, Studien zur altgermanischen Religionsgeschichte. 4 Aufsätze, Leipzig.
- 1943, Die klassischen Isländersagas und ihr Ehrbegriff, in: Grundmann, Walter (Hg.), Die völkische Gestalt des Glaubens, Leipzig, S. 157-220.
- With Lars Åkerberg (1944), Thomas Thorild as Vorläufer der neuzeitlichen Religionswissenschaft, Greifswald.
- Alt-Uppsala and Urnes, 1944. Untersuchung zur Entstehung der Dreischiffstabkirche und des ältesten Germanisch-heidnischen Kulthauses, (Meddelande fån Lunds astronomiska observatorium, Ser. II Nr. 115), Lund.
- 1944, Alt-Uppsala und Arkona, in: Vetenskapssocieteten i Lund, Årsbok 1943, Lund, S. 79-120.
- [1945″Toalettredskapen”ochsolreligionenunderyngrebronsåldernin:Fornvännen40S337-358[1945年,“Toalettredskapen”ochsolreligionen在yngrebronsåldern下,在:Fornvännen40S337-358。
- Gravskeppet, 1946. Studier i förhistorisk nordisk religionshistoria, Stockholm.
- 1963, Hällristningarnas Goodard. En sammanställning och ett förklarningsförsök, Stockholm.
- 1979, Vårt nordiska arv. From 10.000 f.Kr. until medeltidens början, Stockholm.
autobiography
- I am heaven. Levnadsminnen I, Uddevalla (1965).
- Dr. Lund. En bok om akademiska intriger, Stockholm (1980).
- After MiG Syndafloden. Greifswald-Berlin-Hamburg 1941-1945, Köping (1980).
literature
- Fritz Heinrich, (1997), Das religionswissenschaftliche Institut der Ernst Moritz Arndt-Universität Greifswald 1944-1945, in: Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft 5, S. 203-230.
- Fritz Heinrich, (2002) Die deutsche Religionswissenschaft und der Nationalsozialismus. Eine ideologiekritische und wissenschaftsgeschichtliche Untersuchung, Petersburg.
- Gunnar Jarring, (1992–1994), Ohlmarks, Åke Joel, in: Svenskt Biografiskt Lexikon Bd. 28, Stockholm, S. 111-117.
- Anders Marell, (1998), Åke Ohlmarks – schwedischer Lektor, Nazimitläufer und/oder Geheimagent?, in: Germanisten 1-3 Jg. 3, S. 93-100.
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