Sven Stolpe

Sven Stolpe
Sven Stolpe in 1929
Born24 August 1905 Edit this on Wikidata
Katarina Parish Edit this on Wikidata
Died26 August 1996 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 91)
Filipstad church parish Edit this on Wikidata
Spouse(s)Karin Stolpe Edit this on Wikidata
ChildrenMonica Rennerfelt Edit this on Wikidata

Sven Stolpe (24 August 1905 – 26 August 1996) was a Swedish writer, translator, journalist, literary scholar and critic, who was active in Swedish literary and intellectual discussion for most of his life.[1]

In the early 1930s, he argued for internationalism and against aestheticism, but he was also part of the Oxford Group which claimed the necessity of "moral and spiritual re-armament" and later in life, in 1947, he became a Catholic.[2] Among his literary production is a 1959 dissertation on Queen Christina of Sweden, who abdicated as a result of her own conversion to Catholicism.[3]

In 1984, the Belgian biographer Joris Taels published a biography of Stolpe.[4]

  1. ^ Sven Stolpe in Nationalencyklopedin (in Swedish)
  2. ^ Stenborg, Elisabeth. 2004. Lätt, snabb och oöm. Sven Stolpe i minnet Archived 9 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine In Signum, Swedish Catholic journal on culture and religion. (in Swedish)
  3. ^ Lönnroth, Lars, and Sven Delblanc (eds). 1989. "Vid Fronten: Sven Stolpe". Den svenska litteraturen, p. 79 (in Swedish)
  4. ^ Sven Stolpe : een monografie, bibliographical record in LIBRIS