User:Daask/sandbox/Johan Nordström

Nils Johan Nordström (born 18 May 1891 in Öjebyn , Piteå National Assembly , died July 16, 1967 in Uppsala^[1]) was a Swedish historian of ideas and scholarship, and is considered the founder of this subject as independent discipline in Sweden. He became the first holder of Emilia and Gustaf Carlberg's professor in History of Ideas and Literature at Uppsala University in 1932 and founded two years later (1934) the Lærdomshistoriska samfund, whose yearbook Lychnos began to emerge in 1936.

Activity[edit]

As literature historians in the 1910s and 20s, Johan Nordström mainly devoted to the Swedish 18th century Georg Stiernhielm, Olof Rudbeck, and Gothicism. He published in, among others, Who has written in attendance of the wedding? (1914), To the question of Skogekär Bärgbo (1917) and Friedrich Menius (1921), all published in The Collector.^[2]

Eventually, he became increasingly involved in Latin literature instead of fiction in Swedish. Above all, it was Stiernhielms study that led him there. His dissertation Georg Stiernhielm, Philosophical fragment of Stiernhielm's philosophical fragments from 1924, is based entirely on scholarly scientific texts. Nordström describes mosaic natural philosophy, Gassendi's atomic theory, Socinian rationalism, German spiritualism (Rosicrucian and others) and not least the Aristotelian philosophy and the contemporary discussion within this. Nordström wanted in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (1929) the Renaissance to arise in France in the 1100s and not in Italy 200 years later. Nordström then devoted mainly to streetism, the idea of Sweden as the people's home and the cradle of culture. He wrote about Olof Rudbeck's Atlantica in the chapter The island of Yverborn, in Rudbeck's Studies (1930). In Atlantican, a work of four bands, Rudbeck wants to show that Sweden shortly after the floods came to be populated by descendants of Noah's son Japhet, and that much of the European culture in fact originated from this people, which he identified with the Goths, the same people as robbed Rome. Olof Rudbeck himself writes in Atlantican: "Sweden, the present, living, perceptible, where we live our daily lives, is Manhem,^[a] Atlantis, Paradise, Humanity's Home, the Garden of the Hesperides with the Golden Eagles. Nothing great, great or good, exists in the human world, nobody knowledge, no art, no virtue, to which the Swedes have no right of pre-emption and an ancient conviction. "

The most important element of what can be called Nordströms method is the pursuit of empathy and historical understanding. Here he joins the traditional tradition of Henrik Schück, Jacob Burckhardt and Wilhelm Dilthey. This historistic way of thinking separates Nordström from George Sarton and the positivist tradition in the history of science. Nordström adopts the conceptual factors a greater role for historical development than the material ones.

From 1933, Nordström spent most of the history of natural science. Then he had come into contact with the positivist history of science and was in correspondence with, among others, Sarton. Nordström writes: "With the history of science as a motive of motivation, another meaningful, merciful and well-founded view of humanity's migration through the ages opens" (1933).

Nordström became a member of the Humanist Sciences Society in Uppsala, 1934, 1934, by the Society for the publishing of manuscripts concerning the history of Scandinavia, 1944 by the Vitterness Academy and 1945 by the Science Society in Uppsala. He was elected in 1950 as a member number 959 of the Royal Academy of Sciences.

Notes[edit]

^ A reference to a place in Rudbeck's Atlantica, which Rudbeck equates with Atlantis.

Citations[edit]

^ Sweden's death book 1947-2006, (CD), Sweden's Relatives Association
^ Carlquist, Gunnar , Red (1937). Swedish reference book. Bd 20. Malmö: Swedish Uppslagsbok AB. p. 104

References[edit]

Johan Nordström in Who is it , page 799, 1963
Andersson Nils, Björck Henrik, Red (2008). Ideological history in time: perspective on the subject's identity for seventy five years. Stockholm: Brutus Östlings bokförlag Symposion. Libris 10877176. ISBN 978-91-7139-808-6
Gunnar Eriksson, "The North-Norwegian School." Lychnos. The History of the Doctrinal History Society 1983.
Tore Frängsmyr, "Johan Nordström and the History of Learning History in Sweden." Lychnos. The History of the Doctrinal History Society 1983.
Sten G. Lindberg, "Johan Nordström's seminars and the 17th century." Lychnos. The History of the Doctrinal History Society 1984.
Sten Lindroth, "Johan Nordström 1891-1967." Lychnos. The History of the History of the Doctrinal History 1967-68

Activity[edit]

Notes[edit]

Citations[edit]

References[edit]

Further reading[edit]