Sigurd Agrell

He then continued his academic career at Lund University, where he in 1908 defended his PhD thesis on aspect in Polish.

[2] Alongside his work in Slavic languages, Agrell was also interested in runology, and published a number of papers in this field.

He began his poetic career as a 16-year-old secondary school student in Örebro, where he contributed with translations and own poems to Lingvo internacia, an Esperanto magazine that had been published in Uppsala since 1895.

Among others, he translated poems by Swedish authors Erik Johan Stagnelius and Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom.

During his studies in Uppsala, Agrell belonged, together with John Landquist, Sven Lidman and Harald Brising to Les quatre diables, a group of students with literary interests.