20 Years of Scandinavian Studies at Vilnius University – Feast, Play and Puzzles

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doi:10.15388/scandinavisticavilnensis.2014.9.1

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“…DN kallade Kjellbergs brev till fästmön Ann-Mari från hösten 1939 för en guldgruva av kunskap om den tidens Litauen (Ibid).8 Samtidigt Det var professor Bengt Hesselman som föreslog Kjellberg att söka lektoratet i Kaunas: "Vore Eder tacksam, om Ni […] kunde sätta Er i förbindelse med mig någon av de närmaste dagarna," -skrev han i ett kort till Kjellberg (Hesselman 1938). Jag skriver om dessa och andra fakta ur hans liv även i min tidigare artikel om Lennart Kjellberg (Sausverde 2006). De gifte sig den 1 januari 1940.…”

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En svensk röst från Kaunas och Vilnius1939–1940: Lennart Kjellbergs brev

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In this article, I intend to publish a series of letters by Lennart Kjellberg (1913–2004) who had worked as a Swedish lecturer in Lithuania at the University in Kaunas and Vilnius before World War II, in 1939–1940. I met Lennart Kjellberg several times in the early 90s when I, a young scholar after completing Swedish and Nordic studies and a doctorate in historical linguistics, came to Vilnius and started teaching at the University of Vilnius and set up the Department for Scandinavian Studies. We met several times in Uppsala, and Lennart Kjellberg gave me a bundle of copies of his letters, mainly to his bride Ann-Mari Stridbeck written in 1939, encouraging me to publish them. Kjellberg’s letters are an incredibly exciting source of information and insight for those interested in the cultural and political life of Lithuania during that time and in its perception by a young Swedish intellectual. For me, meeting Lennart Kjellberg, besides everything else, was an unexpected collision with the past which had been cut away by Soviet oppression. For those who grew up during the Soviet era, the period before and during the Soviet presence was sort of divided into then and now (before and after World War II). The loss of continuity in Lithuania’s history is perhaps one of its greatest traumas caused by the Soviet period. For this reason, Kjellberg’s letters, most of which are being published here for the first time, not only give us a lively picture of pre-war Lithuania but also contribute to our better understanding of our past and of ourselves.

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“…Jag har publicerat ett brev till Ann Mari i vilket Lennart Kjellberg bjuder på en oerhört spännande promenad genom Vilnius så som han såg staden den 8 november 1939, både på litauiska(Sausverde 1994) och svenska(Sausverde 2006). På litauiska (1994) publicerade jag även hans brev till Per Sandberg, vilket här publiceras på svenska för första gången.…”

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En svensk röst från Kaunas och Vilnius1939–1940: Lennart Kjellbergs brev

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20 Years of Scandinavian Studies at Vilnius University – Feast, Play and Puzzles

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