Martin Lamm

Martin Lamm (22 June 1880 – 5 May 1950) was a Swedish literary scientist.

Lamm was the son of businessman Herman Lamm and Lisen Philipson. He became associate professor of literature at Uppsala in 1908. Between 1919 and 1945 he was professor at Stockholm university. In 1928 he became a member of the Swedish Academy. Lamm was the first scholar to systematically edit the unpublished papers of August Strindberg and he was the first to conduct serious studies on the works of Carl Jonas Love Almquist. He also wrote a biography on Emanuel Swedenborg. Lamm died in a tram accident on Skeppsbron in Stockholm.

Sources

• Svenska Dagbladets årsbok : 1950, ed. Erik Rudberg, Edvin Hellbom, Stockholm 1951 p. 286.
• Lamm 5, Herman Fredrik in Nordisk familjebok (2nd ed., 1911).