Johan Henrik Thomander

Swedish translator, priest and theologian (1798-1865) Date Of Birth : 1798-06-16T00:00:00Z Date Of Death : 1865-07-09T00:00:00Z

Johan Henrik Thomander (16 June 1798 – 9 July 1865) was a Swedish professor, bishop, translator and author. He received his doctorate in theology in 1836 and was elected to the eighteenth chair of the Swedish Academy in 1856.
After his father’s death, Thomander’s daughters bequeathed a house on Sandgatan in Lund to Lund University to be used as a student residence. The dormitory still exists today and is called Johan Henrik Thomanders studenthem (‘Johan Henrik Thomander’s dormitory’).

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