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]
Private life
His brother was Herman Stolpe.
He is buried in Vadstena cemetery.[5][6]
References
- 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
- 5.Göran Åstrand, Här vilar berömda svenskar. 1999, p. 120 (in Swedish)
- 6.Sveriges Television, "Gäst hos Hagge", 10 September 1977.