Carl Segerståhl

Carl Yngve Segerståhl (12 May 1899 – 23 May 1958) was a Swedish rector and painter. Born in Norrköping in southern Sweden, his initial studies included folkloristics, religion, and economics in Lund, working in archives as a student and collecting folk tales. For almost the entirety of his career, he was a teacher, later headmaster, of the folk high school (a form of tertiary popular education) in Vindeln. Segerståhl was a republican, and a supporter of the constructed language Occidental. In the latter part of his life, he held several exhibitions as an artist, and published a magazine generally concerning Vindeln and its surrounding localities.

Career Carl Yngve Segerståhl was born on 12 May 1899 in Norrköping, Östergötland. His mother worked as a midwife, and his step-father as a carpenter. Graduating in Norrköping in 1919, he took a degreeEfn|Sources disagree whether this was a Candidate of Philosophy and wrote several articles in and about the language.

Segerståhl had been interested in art since childhood but never received any formal training as an artist. In the late 1930s and 1940s, he began drawing in coloured ink and painting with oil paint. He exhibited as a solo artist twice: in 1942 in Umeå and in 1953 in Norrköping. He also participated in collective exhibitions of art on the theme of constellations. In 1958, a commemorative exhibition of his art was shown in Vindeln. According to the Svenskt konstnärslexikon, Segerståhl's art was initially naturalistic, and later developed into a style more reminiscent of fantasy. He published a memoir, The Paths of Childhood , in 1951. As a folklorist, Segerståhl collected folk tales in the region of Östergötland; he is credited in Reimund Kvideland and Henning K. Sehmsdorf's Scandinavian Folklore and Legend as having collected a story about the thief "Liven".