Maja forssman torgny segerstedt biography

Swedish professor and scholar

This article is about the religious scholar and prominent anti-fascist newspaper editor.

For the philosophy professor and Rector of Uppsala University, see Torgny T:son Segerstedt.

Torgny Karl Segerstedt (1 November 1876 – 31 March 1945) was a Swedish professor and scholar of comparative religion, who later became editor-in-chief of the newspaper Göteborgs Handels- och Sjöfartstidning.

A few days after Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany in , Torgny Segerstedt, the editor in chief of one of Sweden's major newspapers.

Maja Forssman, the wife of his publisher and best friend.

It is set between and , and focuses on the life and career of Torgny Segerstedt, a Swedish newspaper editor who was a prominent critic of Hitler and.

Maja is not only the boss' wife, she is also Segerstedt's very public mistress, a situation that disturbs and aggravates the editor's neurotic.

'Sentence' centers on Swedish journalist and newspaper editor Torgny Segerstedt (Jesper Christensen), who decried the rise of Nazism.

He is most remembered for his uncompromising anti-Nazi stance and his efforts to alert the Swedish public to the threat of Fascism during the 1930s.^[1][2][3]

Biography

Torgny Segerstedt was born at Karlstad in Värmland County, Sweden.

He was the son of the teacher and publicist Albrekt Segerstedt (1844–1894) and Fredrika Sofia Bohman (died 1884). He earned a cand.theol. degree from Lund University in 1901 and in 1903 he became a lecturer in the history of religion.

He was a lecturer in theological encycloped