AGRELL, Per Sigurd. Rämmen, Värmland 16.1.1881 — Lund 19.4.1937. Swedish Slavist and IE Linguist, Runic Scholar, Translator and Poet. Professor in Lund. Son of factory owner Frans Vilhelm Agrell and Ida Vendela Örtenholm. School in Stockholm. Studies from 1899 at Uppsala: fil.kand. & fil.lic. 1907 there, Ph.D. 1909 Lund. PD i slaviska språk from 1909 at Lund, from 1921 Professor of the same. Married 1911 Anna Elvita Österman (d. 1931) and 1933 Märta Sköllerstrand, two sons.
Publications: Studies on Slavic verbs, on Slavic accent, on historical phonetics of Balto-Slavic.
– “Zur Geschichte des ig. Neutrums”, Kungl. Human. Vetenskapssamfundet i Lund Årsberättelse 1925-26, 17-64.
– Studies on runes, e.g. Senantik mysteriereligion och nordisk runmagi. 279 p. Stockholm 1931.
– Six collections of poetry, several translations of Russian classics.
Sources: Svenska män och kvinnor 1 and Wikipedia (Swedish version with more information), both with photo.
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