Anna Alm Explained

Birth Date:27 May 1862
Birth Place:Harbo, Västmanland, Sweden
Death Place:Stockholm, Sweden
Occupation:editor and author

Anna Vilhelmina Alm (27 May 1862) was a Swedish editor and author.[1] Alm wrote several books and edited an independent Church of Sweden parish journal, .

Biography

Born in 1862 to Captain Olof Wilhelm Forssell and Jacquette Euphrosyne Cecilia Neijber in Harbo, Västmanland County, and married in 1886 to Carl Alm (a, or person responsible for population registration in parishes in Stockholm), in 1905 Anna Alm became the editor of the publication . was run by the Church organisation (The Society for the Promotion of Church Mental Health), an organisation that was started by Carl Alm and later merged with the Church of Sweden lay association. The newspaper began as an insert for the Swedish newspaper Vårt Land but in 1904 became an independent publication, and dealt mostly with parish affairs.[2] She remained in this position until 1918.[3]

Alm wrote a number of books including (A book for mother, 1909), (The book on Sundays, 1913), (An old medieval tale for young knights, 1917), (On the city limits of the big city, 1918), (In Torstuna vicarage, 1926), and (From years that moved, 1929).

Anna and Carl Alm are buried together at the Norra begravningsplatsen in Stockholm.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Book: ÅHLÉN . BENGT . FRIES . CARL-THORE . HARNESK . PAUL . LÖNBORG . AGNETA . Svenskt författarlexikon 1900–1940 A-Ö . 1942 . RABÉN & SJÖGREN . 22 . 28 November 2021.
  2. Nykvist . Martin D. . "VI MÄN HÖRA OCK GUDS RIKE TILL!" Manslighetsideal inom Kyrkobröderna, Svenska kyrkans lekmannaförbund 1918–1929 . Uppsala Universitet Teologiska Institutionen . 2011 . 55 . 28 November 2021.
  3. Web site: G.K. . Anna Alm . Swedish Portraits Archive . 28 November 2021.
  4. Web site: Alm, ANNA VILHELMINA . Svenska Gravar . Eniac . 28 November 2021.