Knut Fredrik Söderwall
{{Short description|Swedish philologist (1842–1924)}}
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| birth_place = Drängsered parish, Sweden
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1924|05|30|1842|01|01|df=y}}
| death_place = Lund, Sweden
| occupation = Professor of Nordic languages at Lund University; Member of the Swedish Academy
| alma_mater = Lund University
| known_for = Ordbok öfver svenska medeltidsspråket
| awards = Karl Johan prize (1886)
Letterstedt prize (1888)
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| predecessor = Theodor Wisén
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Knut Fredrik Söderwall (1 January 1842 – 30 May 1924) was a Swedish philologist, professor at Lund University, and member of the Swedish Academy.{{cite web |url=https://www.svenskaakademien.se/svenska-akademien/ledamotsregister/soderwall-knut |title=Söderwall, Knut |author= |date= |website=svenskaakademien.se |publisher=Swedish Academy |access-date=11 July 2022 |quote=}}{{cite encyclopedia |last= |first= |author-link= |editor-last=Westrin |editor-first=Theodor |editor-link=:sv:Theodor Westrin |encyclopedia=Nordisk familjebok |title=Söderwall |trans-title= |url=https://runeberg.org/nfch/0115.html |access-date=11 July 2022 |language=sv |edition=2 |year=1919 |publisher=Nordisk familjeboks förlags aktiebolag |series= |volume=28 |location= |id= |isbn= |issn= |oclc= |doi= |page=194 |quote= }}{{cite book |editor-last=Rudberg |editor-first=E |date=1925 |title=Svenska Dagbladets Årsbok Andra Årgången (Händelserna 1924) |trans-title= |url=https://runeberg.org/svda/1924/0079.html |language=sv |location=Uppsala |publisher=Almqvist & Wiksells Boktryckeri-Aktiebolag |isbn=}}
Biography
Söderwall was born 1842 in Drängsered parish, Halland County. He was the son of the parish priest Per Söderwall and Margareta Johanna von Wachenfeldt. He graduated from the Lund Cathedral School in 1858, and entered Lund University. Söderwall received a Bachelor of Arts in 1863 and a PhD in 1865. He was appointed Docent 1865 and Adjunct professor in 1872. After six years as a stand-in (extraordinarie professor) for Theodor Wisén he became professor in Nordic languages in 1892. The same year he was also elected to Seat No. 5 of the Swedish Academy, also there as successor to Wisén. Söderwall retired as professor in 1907. He died in Lund 30 May 1924.
Work
Söderwall's work mainly concerns Old Swedish. Between 1884 and 1918 he published a dictionary on Old Swedish, Ordbok öfver svenska medeltidsspråket, on behalf of Svenska fornskriftsällskapet. Following the success in the early work on this dictionary he was recruited by the Swedish Academy to work on Svenska Akademiens Ordbok (SAOB). The work on this dictionary had stalled in the 18th century, but was restarted in the 1880s. Söderwall worked on SAOB 1884–1912. Between 1892 and 1912 he was the main editor.
Memberships in academies and learned societies
- 1884 Royal Nordic Society of Antiquaries{{cite magazine |author= |date=12 January 1901 |title=Knut Fredrik Söderwall |url=https://runeberg.org/hvar8dag/3/1502.html |language=sv |magazine=Hvar 8 dag |location=Göteborg |publisher= |access-date=18 July 2022}}
- 1892 Swedish Academy
- 1894 Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters (No. 353)
- 1895 Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities{{cite web |url=https://badw.de/en/data/footer-navigation/personentreffer.html?tx_badwdb_badwperson%5Baction%5D=show&tx_badwdb_badwperson%5Bcontroller%5D=BADWPerson&tx_badwdb_badwperson%5BpartialType%5D=BADWPersonDetailsPartial&tx_badwdb_badwperson%5Bper_id%5D=2960&cHash=1157bb09a09b12655bf2d1ea2dd660ce |title= Prof. Dr. Knut Fredrik Söderwall |author= |date= |website= |publisher=Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities |access-date=11 July 2022 |quote=}}
- 1900 Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (No. 694)
- 1901 Royal Society of Sciences and Letters in Gothenburg
- 1909 Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities (No. 104)
Awards
Bibliography
- 1865 Några anmärkningar öfver de svenska kasusformerna under medeltiden
- 1865 Om verbets rektion i fornsvenskan
- 1967 Om främmande ords behandling i fornsvenskan
- 1870 Hufvudepokerna af svenska språkets utbildning
- 1880 Några svenska medeltidsord förklarade
- 1884-1918 Ordbok öfver svenska medeltidsspråket
References
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External links
- [https://www.svenskaakademien.se/svenska-akademien/ledamotsregister/soderwall-knut Short biography] in the member register of the Swedish Academy (in Swedish)
- [https://runeberg.org/authors/soderwkf.html Söderwall] on Project Runeberg
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Category:Members of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
Category:Members of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
Category:Members of the Royal Society of Sciences and Letters in Gothenburg
Category:Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities
Category:Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Category:Members of the Swedish Academy
Category:Swedish lexicographers
Category:Linguists from Sweden
Category:Lund University alumni