Bror Oscar Eilert Ekwall (8 January 1877 in Vallsjö – 23 November 1964 in Lund ) was a Swedish academic, Professor of English at Sweden's Lund University from 1909 to 1942 and one of the outstanding scholars of the English language in the first half of the 20th century. He wrote works on the history of English, but he is best known as the author of numerous important books on English place-names (in the broadest sense) and personal names .
13-553: Ekwall is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Eilert Ekwall (1877–1964), Swedish Professor of English at Lund University Emma Ekwall (1838–1925), Swedish painter Harald Ekwall (1873–unknown), Chilean sports shooter Knut Ekwall (1843–1912), Swedish painter and illustrator Patrick Ekwall (born 1965), Swedish sports journalist Sofia Maria Ekwall (1826–1897), Swedish female murderer William A. Ekwall (1887–1956), United States Representative from Oregon and
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39-543: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Eilert Ekwall His chief works in this area are The Place-Names of Lancashire (1922), English Place-Names in -ing (1923, new edition 1961), English River Names (1928), Studies on English Place- and Personal Names (1931), Studies on English Place-Names (1936), Street-Names of the City of London (1954), Studies on the Population of Medieval London (1956), and
52-555: Is open to the public. Academy is composed of up to 30 executive members in each historical , antiquarian , philosophical , philological class and up to ten honorary members. Swedish and foreign "corresponding members" are not limited in number. When a working member reaches 70 years they can choose a new member, while 70-year-olds remain in the Academy as emeritus or emerita. Therefore, the Academy currently has around 130 members. Diploma , prizes , medals and awards distributed by
65-565: The Humanities . Its many publications include the archaeological and art historical journal Fornvännen , published since 1906. Now located in Rettigska house at Villa Street 3 in Stockholm , the Academy had origins in the early 1700s Uppsala . It was founded in 1753 by Queen Louisa Ulrica , Queen of Sweden and the mother of King Gustav III and originally dedicated to literature. In 1786 when
78-577: The Småland region. Swedish Academy of Letters The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities also called simply the Royal Academy of Letters or Vitterhetsakademien abbreviated KVHAA ( Swedish : Kungl. Vitterhetsakademien Historie och Antikvitets Akademien or Kungliga Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien or Vitterhetsakademien ) is the Swedish royal academy for
91-532: The Swedish Academy was founded it was reconstituted under its present name with new objectives, mainly dedicated to historical and antiquarian preservation. This included a close cooperation with the Swedish National Heritage Board (Swedish: "Riksantikvarieämbetet") whose director was, ex officio, the Academy's secretary. The Academy's purpose is "to promote research and other activities in
104-411: The humanities , religious studies , jurisprudence and social science disciplines and cultural heritage ". This is done primarily through financial support and through vibrant publishing. Among the academy's writings are Fornvännen . The Academy's responsibilities have grown to encompass the entire activity of the humanities field in the broad sense, including religion , law and social studies. At
117-564: The anonymous Writing Scholar's Companion of 1695 (1911), and John Lydgate 's Siege of Thebes (1930). Notable other books or booklets were that on modern English phonology and morphology originally published in German in 1914, and still being reprinted in 1965 (English edition finally after Ekwall's death, in 1975); and that on the genitive of groups, with much relevance for place-name studies (1943). Ekwall also left behind an extensive body of influential academic articles and notes (many collected in
130-496: The books of 1931 and 1936 mentioned above), local working papers of Lund University, and a very large number of book reviews, all published over a period of some 60 years, in English, Swedish and German, and mostly referenced in von Feilitzen's bibliography. From 1935, Ekwall was a Fellow of the Swedish Academy of Letters and the Swedish Academy of Sciences . He and his wife Dagny founded a bursary for students at Lund University from
143-521: The monumental Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names (1936, new editions 1940, 1947/51 and the last in 1960). The Dictionary remained the standard national reference resource for over 40 years, and is still valuable even though some aspects of Ekwall's methodology and some of his ideas are no longer accepted. Although not a county editor of the survey conducted by the English Place-Name Society (1923-date), his philological advice
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#1732852592276156-623: The request of the government or public authority , or on its own initiative, the Academy gives opinions on matters that affect its activity. The Academy owns and operates the Stjernsund Castle in Närke , Skånelaholm Castle in Uppland , Stensjö hamlet in Småland and Borg hamlet on the island of Öland . Vitterhetsakademi's library is included in the Swedish National Heritage Board and operates public scientific special interest libraries . It
169-505: Was often sought and acknowledged by scholars preparing the county volumes, such as Allen Mawer and Frank Stenton . He was competent not only in English philology, but also in Scandinavian and Celtic , making him ideally qualified as an authority on linguistic aspects of the place-names of England. His other work on English included scholarly editions of classic early-modern works such as John Jones' Practical Phonography of 1701 (1907),
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