Table of Contents

1 Preface Chapter 2 1. Childhood and Schooldays in Jönköping, 1889-1907 Chapter 3 2. Liber Studiosus Chapter 4 3. The Great Adventure, 1910-1911 Chapter 5 4. The Irresolute Strategist, 1912-1914 Chapter 6 5. The Diligent Correspondent Chapter 7 6. The Scholarly Breakthrough Chapter 8 7. The Gothenburg Years, 1918-1939 Chapter 9 8. Proximitatem Linguae Longinquae Manifestam Fecit Chapter 10 9. Stockholm, 1939-1959: The Legendary Master Chapter 11 10. Bernhard Karlgren, Professor Emeritus, 1959-1978 12 A List of Works by Bernhard Karlgren in Other Languages than Swedish, Together with Translations into Chinese and Japanese, and a List of His Dedications and Awards 13 Notes 14 Bibliography 15 Index

About the Author

N. G. D. Malmqvist is a member of the Swedish Academy, the Royal Swedish Academy of Science, the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History, and Antiquities, the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences, and Academia Europaea.