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 A. and Ida Örtenholm. 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 Österman (d. 1931) and 1933 Märta Sköllerstrand, at least 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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