Vorlage:Short description Vorlage:Infobox academic John Frederick Lindow (born July 23, 1946) is an American philologist who is Professor Emeritus of Old Norse and Folklore at University of California, Berkeley. He is a well known authority on Old Norse religion and literature.
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John Lindow was born in Washington, D.C., on July 23, 1946, the son of Wesley Lindow and Eleanor Niemetta. His father was a banker and his mother was a teacher.Vorlage:Sfn
John Lindow received his undergraduate degree at Harvard University, where he gained an A.B., magna cum laude, in 1968, and a PhD in 1972, both in Germanic Languages and Literatures.[1]
After gaining his Ph.D, Lindow joined the faculty at University of California, Berkeley, serving as Acting Assistant Professor (1972–1974), Assistant Professor (1974–1977), Associate Professor (1977–1983), and Professor of Scandinavian (1983-?).Vorlage:Sfn He was since retired as Professor Emeritus of Old Norse and Folklore.[1]
In 1977, Lindow was elected as a corresponding member of the Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy.[2] In 2018, he received the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Falcon at the Icelandic president's residence for scholarly contributions in the area of Icelandic medieval literature.[3] He is also a member of the American Folklore Society, the Medieval Academy of America and the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study.Vorlage:Sfn
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Lindow specializes in the study of Old Norse religion and literature. He is also an expert on Scandinavian folklore, Sami and Finnish mythology, and Inuit religion. Lindow's Handbook of Norse mythology was published in 2001. He is the co-editor of the forthcoming Pre-Christian Religions of the North: History and Structures, which is to be published in four volumes by Brepols, and the forthcoming Old Norse Mythology, which is to be published by Oxford University Press.[4]
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Lindow married Katharine Forbes, a teacher, on October 4, 1968, with whom he has two daughters.Vorlage:Sfn
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- Lindow, John (1976) Comitatus, individual and honor: Studies in north Germanic institutional vocabulary, University of California Press[5]
- Lindow, John (1978) Swedish legends and folktales, Berkeley: University of California Press[6]
- Myths and Legends of the Vikings, Bellerophon Books, 1980.
- Viking Ships, Belerophon Books, 1982.
- Scandinavian Mythology: An Annotated Bibliography, Garland Press, 1984.
- (Editor with Carol J. Clover) Old Norse-Icelandic Literature: A Critical Guide, Cornell University Press (Ithaca, NY), 1985, University of Toronto Press (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 2005.
- (Editor with Lars Lonnroth and Gerd Wolfgang Weber) Structure and Meaning in Old Norse Literature: New Approaches to Textual Analysis and Literary Criticism, Odense University Press (Odense), 1986.
- Lindow, John (1997) Murder Vengeance among the Gods: Baldr in Scandinavian Mythology, Helsinki : Suomalainen tiedeakatemia, Academia Scientiarum Fennica[7]
- (Editor with Carl Lindahl and John McNamara) Medieval Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs, ABC-CLIO, 2000.
- Lindow, John (2001) Handbook of Norse mythology, Santa Barbara, Calif.[8] also published as Lindow, John (2001). Norse Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs. Oxford University Press. Vorlage:ISBN.[9]
- Lindow, John (2014) Trolls: An Unnatural History. London: Reaction Books[10]
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- John Frederick Lindow. In: Contemporary Authors. Gale, 27. April 2012, abgerufen am 3. Oktober 2020.
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- ↑ a b John Lindow. In: University of California, Berkeley. Abgerufen am 29. August 2020.
- ↑ Curriculum vitae web.archive.org Fehler bei Vorlage * Parametername unbekannt (Vorlage:Webarchiv): "date" Fehler bei Vorlage:Webarchiv: Genau einer der Parameter 'wayback', 'webciteID', 'archive-today', 'archive-is' oder 'archiv-url' muss angegeben werden. Fehler bei Vorlage:Webarchiv: enWP-Wert im Parameter 'url'., 2007, retrieved 2011-01-10.
- ↑ Nýir fálkaorðuhafar | Forseti.is. In: Forseti.is. Abgerufen am 15. Oktober 2018.
- ↑ John Lindow. In: University of California, Berkeley. Abgerufen am 29. August 2020.
- ↑ Barnes, Michael (1978) Review of Comitatus, Individual and Honor: Studies in North Germanic Institutional Vocabulary by John Lindow (A revision of the author's thesis, Harvard, 1972), Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies, Jul., 1978, vol. 53, no. 3, p. 597-600
- ↑ Simpson, Jacqueline (1979) Review of Swedish Legends and Folktales by John Lindow, Folklore, vol. 90, no. 2, p. 244
- ↑ Hugus, Frank (1999) (Review of) Murder Vengeance among the Gods: Baldr in Scandinavian Mythology, by John Lindow, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies, Vol. 74, No. 2 (Apr.), pp. 450-452
- ↑ Simpson, Jacqueline (2003) Review of Handbook of Norse Mythology, Folklore, Aug., 2003, vol. 114, no. 2, pp. 275–76
- ↑ Lindow (2001:Rear flap).
- ↑ O’Donoghue, Heather (2014) From folk tales to internet pests - Review of John Lindow TROLLS An unnatural history, Times Literary Review 19 November 2014