Lorenz von Numers

Lorenz Torbjörn Gustaf Gunnar von Numers (25 January 1913, Turku – 19 July 1994, Angers, France) was a Finland-Swedish journalist, translator and author.

Biography Lorenz von Numers' parents were Gösta Gunnar Helge von Numers, who was a railway guard and poet, and Hildur Ellen Elisabet Engberg. von Numers graduated from Brändö Svenska Samskolan in 1933 and studied at the University of Helsinki's Department of Humanities between 1934 and 1936.

von Numers was editor of the newspaper Nyland from 1934 to 1937. During the Spanish Civil War, he served as an observation officer, from 1937 to 1939, for an international committee tasked with securing the border in the Pyrenees between France and Spain. He was head of department for the news agency Finlandia from 1939 to 1941 and 1944 to 1946, and a front-line correspondent in Finland during the Continuation War from 1941 to 1944.

In 1947, von Numers moved to Sweden. He was editorial secretary for OBS! in Stockholm from 1948 to 1952 and editor at Svenska Dagbladet from 1955 to 1959. From 1959 onwards he lived in France. In addition to this, he also wrote poetry, causerie, essays, and short stories.

As a translator, he has translated works by André Gide, Henri Alain-Fournier, Marcel Aymé, Jean Froissart and Joseph Bédier's Tristan and Isolde, among others.