Martin Lamm

Martin Lamm (22 June 1880 – 5 May 1950) was a Swedish literary scientist.

Martin Lamm.

Lamm was the son of businessman Herman Lamm and Lisen Philipson. He became associate professor of literature at Uppsala University in 1908. Lamm was professor at Stockholm University 1919–1945. In 1928, he became a member of the Swedish Academy. Lamm was the first scholar to systematically edit the unpublished papers of August Strindberg and to conduct serious studies on the works of Carl Jonas Love Almquist. He also wrote a biography on Emanuel Swedenborg. Lamm died in a tram accident on Skeppsbron in Stockholm.

Sources

• Svenska Dagbladets årsbok : 1950, ed. Erik Rudberg, Edvin Hellbom, Stockholm 1951 p. 286.
• Lamm 5, Herman Fredrik in Nordisk familjebok (2nd ed., 1911).

Cultural offices
Preceded by Claes Annerstedt	Swedish Academy, Seat No.2 1928–1950	Succeeded by Ingvar Andersson