Gunhild Bergh
Swedish literary historian, writer, journalist
About Gunhild Bergh
Lived 1888 – 1961 (aged 72). Gunhild Bergh was a Swedish translator and literary historian.
Gunhild Bergh (20 December 1888 – 10 September 1961) was a Swedish literary historian, travel writer, and newspaper journalist. She was the second Swedish woman to be awarded a PhD in literary history. The Swedish Academy hired her during the 1950s to write reports on the two Italian Nobel Prize in Literature nominees, Alberto Moravia and Riccardo Bacchelli. She went to the coeducational Whitlockska skolan in Stockholm, receiving her school leaving certificate in 1907. She was admitted to Uppsala University in the same year to study literary history and languages.
She then started travelling to Rome, and continued to, until she decided to stay and live there from 1920. Between 1922 and 1925, she published Ehrensvärd's collected writings in three volumes. In addition to literary works, she also used to do news reporting for newspapers and magazines.
Gunhild Bergh remained unmarried throughout her life. She died on 10 September 1961, in Rome. She was buried at the Verano cemetery.
Publications Bergh's publications included C. A. Ehrensvärds brev (ed. 1916–1917) Skrifter av Carl August Ehrensvärd (ed. 1922–1925) Till Palestina (1947)
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Swedish literary historian, writer, journalist
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Gunhild Bergh was born on 20 December 1888 in Gävle Parish.
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Gunhild Bergh died on 10 September 1961 in Sankt Matteus.
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Gunhild Bergh was a translator and literary historian.
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Gunhild Bergh was Swedish.
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