Åke Ohlmarks
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Swedish writer and academic
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Åke Ohlmarks's Degrees
- PhD Scandinavian Languages Stockholm University
Why Is Åke Ohlmarks Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Åke Joel Ohlmarks was a Swedish author, translator and scholar of philology, linguistics and religious studies. He worked as a lecturer at the University of Greifswald from 1941 to 1945, where he founded the institute for religious studies together with the Deutsche Christen member . His most notable contribution to the field is his 1939 study of Shamanism. As a translator, he is notable for his Swedish version of the Icelandic Edda, of Shakespeare's works and a heavily criticised translation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, as well as a version of the Qur'an and works by writers including Dante and Nostradamus.
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