Þórbergur Þórðarson
Þórbergur Þórðarson ( born March 12, 1888 in Hali í Suðursveit in Austur - Skaftafellssýsla ( now the town Hornafjörður ); † November 12, 1974 in Reykjavík ) was an Icelandic writer. At the birthplace of the writer there is a museum to his life and work. It is located not far from the glacial lake Jökulsárlón west of the ring road and falls through its architecture: The building resembles a bookshelf.
Life
It is unclear whether he is born in 1888 or 1889. Therefore, information that define the year of his birth with 1889 exist.
Due to illness he was unable to take over the farm of his father. Therefore, in 1906 he moved to Reykjavík, where he worked first as a cook on a ship. His experience here he worked in his works Bref til LARU and Ofvitinn I-II.
In 1909, he studied one semester pedagogy. He then spent several semesters at the high school Menntaskólinn í Reykjavík, but not completed the school. His formative years are described aðall in his works Ofvitinn and Íslenzkur.
In the years 1913-1919 he studied at the University of Iceland philosophy. Despite great zeal and interest he could not complete the study due to the lack Baccalaureate.
Þórbergur Þórðarson enthusiastic about Esperanto, taught the language and also created textbooks for it.
Work
His first poetry attempts he published under the pseudonym Styx Stofuglamm. Hálfir skósólar appears in 1914 and spaks spjarir 's cup in 1915.
His first novel Bref til LaRue appeared in 1924. His second great work was Íslenzkur aðall, which was released in 1938. In between, some essays and textbooks on the subject Esperanto appeared. 1940 and 1944, published his two volumes Offvitinn.
Both Bref til LARU and Íslenzkur aðall are strongly autobiographical. He had defined his own style within the Icelandic literature.
Publications in German language
- Íslenzkur aðall transmitted by Hans H. Reykers: Heading to my beloved, Skulima, Heidelberg 1960
- Transmitted by Kristof Magnusson: Islands nobility, S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-10-078023-2.