In Memoriam, Vol. 1

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Excerpt from In Memoriam, Vol. 1: Sven Magnus Gronberger, 1866-1916 With the passing of. Sven Magnus Gronberger The Writers Club of Washington lost a brilliant member whose interesting life and scholarly attainments it seeks to commemorate. So quietly and modestly he moved among us that few, even of his intimate friends, were fully aware of his erudition until he had left us. Mr. Gronberger was born in Söderköping, Sweden, August 19, 1866, and died in Washington, April 24, 1916. He was the youngest son of the banker Rudolf Gronberger and his wife Antoinette. Sven Magnus, bearing the names of two medieval kings of Sweden, spent a happy childhood. In his earliest years he manifested a taste for natural history, indeed one of his first recollections was of being rescued by his mother when a child of between two and three years, as he was about to pick up a bright-colored snake in the garden. His parents were cultivated, literary people, his father being a follower of the American Unitarian idealist Theodore Parker, whose works he read with enthusiasm in a series of Swedish translations, which Sven well remembered, but when about thirty-three years of age the son embraced the Catholic faith. The mother was a linguist and enjoyed English and other classics, with which Sven, too, soon became familiar. He spoke of Thomas à Kempis as his mother's favorite religious author, whose great work he also read as a child. Many examples of the boy's precocity are still recalled by his relatives in Sweden. At nine years he edited a little newspaper, which his brothers sold for him and which proved him to have been a good reporter. He was more studious than his companions, reading history, biology, geography, and other subjects in the schoolroom while they were bent on play, indeed so marked was this tendency that even then he was nicknamed "Professor." The boy observed animals, also, and maintained a kind of menagerie which his brothers collected for him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.