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Johan Henrik Thomander

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Johan Henrik Thomander

Birth
Kristianstad, Kristianstads kommun, Skåne län, Sweden
Death
9 Jul 1865 (aged 67)
Kristianstad, Kristianstads kommun, Skåne län, Sweden
Burial
Lund, Lunds kommun, Skåne län, Sweden Add to Map
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Bishop and professor of theology at the Lund University.

Son of Anders Johansson and Christina "Maria Sophia" Thomaeus

Unmarried to Matta Persson, Lund, Malmohus, Sweden

Son - Peter Thomander

Married Emelia Lovisa K. Meyer, abut 1834

Children - Fredrica Katrina Thomander, Ida Thomander, Emma Christina Thomander

History - Johan was a great preacher, politically a liberal, who for the last ten years of life was also Bishop of Lund, a state church.

Johan brought out translations five plays of Shakespeare. These were The Merry Wives of Windsor, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Antony and Cleopatra, Richard II. He also translated plays of Aristophanes, Voltiare, and Byron.

In a letter to a friend some years after his Shakespearean renderings had been printed, he complained that he had lost in the transaction between six and seven hundred crowns. After Hagberg, Thomander is the foremost of Swedish translators of English poet.

Swedish History, Johan Henrik Thomander
Bishop and professor of theology at the Lund University.

Son of Anders Johansson and Christina "Maria Sophia" Thomaeus

Unmarried to Matta Persson, Lund, Malmohus, Sweden

Son - Peter Thomander

Married Emelia Lovisa K. Meyer, abut 1834

Children - Fredrica Katrina Thomander, Ida Thomander, Emma Christina Thomander

History - Johan was a great preacher, politically a liberal, who for the last ten years of life was also Bishop of Lund, a state church.

Johan brought out translations five plays of Shakespeare. These were The Merry Wives of Windsor, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Antony and Cleopatra, Richard II. He also translated plays of Aristophanes, Voltiare, and Byron.

In a letter to a friend some years after his Shakespearean renderings had been printed, he complained that he had lost in the transaction between six and seven hundred crowns. After Hagberg, Thomander is the foremost of Swedish translators of English poet.

Swedish History, Johan Henrik Thomander


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