Johan August Lundell

Johan August Lundell (25 July 1851 in Kläckeberga, Möre – 28 January 1940 in Uppsala) was a Swedish linguist, professor of Slavic languages at Uppsala University.

He began his studies at Uppsala University in 1871 and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1876.

In the same year, he founded the annual journal Svenska landsmål och svenskt folkliv ("Swedish Dialects and Folk Traditions"), which as of 2010 is still published.

In Uppsala, he taught Bulgarian, Old Church Slavonic, Serbian, Polish and Russian.

[3] In 1892, Lundell founded Upsala Enskilda Läroverk, a private secondary school in Uppsala.

Johan August Lundell on the cover of Swedish weekly Hvar 8 dag , 1911.