Author · Iceland
Jóhann Sigurjónsson
Died in 1919
Jóhann Sigurjónsson was born on 19 June 1880 in Laxamýri, a large farm in the north of Iceland, the son of a farmer. He left in 1899 to study at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural College in Denmark, abandoned it in 1902 for literature, under the influence of Georg Brandes and Nietzsche. He wrote in Danish as well as in Icelandic: his first play, Dr. Rung, appeared in Danish in 1905, Bóndinn á Hrauni in Icelandic in 1908, followed by the Faustian tragedy Galdra-Loftur, poems and stories. He died in Copenhagen on 31 August 1919, aged thirty-nine.
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