Matthías Jochumsson

Matthías Jochumsson was born on 11 November 1835 at Skógar, in the Þorskafjörður, the son of a poor farmer. Ordained at thirty at the Lutheran seminary in Reykjavik, he served the parishes of Oddi, in the south, then of Akureyri, edited two newspapers and translated from English, German and the Scandinavian languages, including Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello and Romeo and Juliet. His play Útilegumennirnir, which became Skugga-Sveinn, is the most frequently performed in Icelandic theatre. In 1891, together with Torfhildur Hólm, he received the first artist's pension granted by the Althing, left the ministry in 1900 and died in Akureyri in 1920.

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• PoetryLofsöngurMatthías Jochumsson · 1874not translated into EnglishLiterature