Curated category
Writers on Germanic paganism
- J. R. R. TolkienOn the evening of his 21st birthday, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien sat down and wrote a letter to a young woman named Edith Mary Bratt.
- François-Xavier DillmannFrançois-Xavier Dillmann was born on the 27th of November 1949, and he has spent his career doing something very few scholars attempt: mastering the…
- Lotte MotzLotte Motz was born on the 16th of August 1922, in Austria, and she spent the better part of four decades quietly transforming how scholars think about Norse…
- Karl Joseph SimrockKarl Joseph Simrock was born on the 28th of August 1802 in Bonn. His father worked as a music publisher there. The young Karl studied law at the University…
- John LindowJohn Frederick Lindow was born in Washington, D.C., on the 23rd of July 1946, the son of a banker and a schoolteacher. He would go on to spend decades at the…
- Wilhelm MannhardtWilhelm Mannhardt was born on the 26th of March 1831 in Friedrichstadt, a small town in what is now northern Germany. He died on the 25th of December 1880…
- Jacob GrimmJacob Ludwig Karl Grimm was born on the 4th of January 1785, in Hanau in Hesse-Kassel, and he spent nearly eight decades building what may be the most…
- Hilda Ellis DavidsonHilda Ellis Davidson was born in Bebington, Cheshire, on the 1st of October 1914, and by the time she died in January 2006, she had spent more than six…
- Rudolf SimekRudolf Simek was born on the 21st of February 1954 in Austria, and he would spend the decades that followed mapping the mythological landscape of the…
- Gabriel Turville-PetreGabriel Turville-Petre entered the world at Bosworth Hall in Husbands Bosworth, Leicestershire on the 25th of March 1908.
- Hamilton Wright MabieHamilton Wright Mabie entered the world on the 13th of December 1846 in Cold Spring, New York. His mother Sarah Colwell Mabie came from a wealthy…
- Georges DumézilGeorges Dumézil was born in Paris on the 4th of March 1898, the son of a highly educated general in the French Army. By the time he died in the same city on…
- H. A. GuerberHélène Adeline Guerber entered the world on the 9th of March 1859 in Mount Clemens, Michigan. Her father Arnold S. Guerber arrived in America in 1845 after…
- Kevin Crossley-HollandKevin John William Crossley-Holland arrived in the world on the 7th of February 1941. He grew up in Whiteleaf, a quiet village nestled within the Chilterns…
- Peter Andreas MunchPeter Andreas Munch was born in Christiania on the 15th of December 1810, and by the time he died in Rome on the 25th of May 1863, he had reshaped how Norway…
- Viktor RydbergAbraham Viktor Rydberg entered the world on the 18th of December 1828 in Gothenburg, Sweden. His father Johan worked as a soldier before becoming a prison…
- Åke OhlmarksÅke Ohlmarks is remembered today mainly because a famous author despised what he did to his book. J. R. R. Tolkien was so troubled by the Swedish translation…