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Occupation. Professor, Idea historian, Author. Nationality. Swedish. Karin Johannisson (11 October 1944 – November 2016) was a Swedish idea historian who was Professor of the History of Science and Ideas at Uppsala University. [1] She was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences .
Sep 22, 2020 · One writer who has managed this with considerable skill and success is intellectual historian Karin Johannisson, whose history of melancholy is an apt illustration of its multifaceted nature.
- Åsa Jansson
- asa.k.jansson@durham.ac.uk
- 2021
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Apr 14, 2009 · Karin Johannisson. “ The tears of the world are a constant quality ,” according to Samuel Beckett. So does it matter what we call them? In Spaces of Melancholy, Karin Johannisson investigates how melancholy speaks and how it’s language is influenced by time and space.
Nov 23, 2016 · 1944-10-11 — 2016-11-23. Professor in intellectual history. Karin Johannisson was the first woman in Sweden to hold a professorship in intellectual history. She was also a well-known and much read author. Her works include Den mörka kontinenten. Kvinnan, medicinen och fin-de-siècle. Karin Johannisson was born in Lund in 1944.
- October 11, 1944
- November 23, 2016
Karin Johannisson was a Swedish idea historian who was Professor of the History of Science and Ideas at Uppsala University. She was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Apr 5, 2018 · Historian Karin Johannisson, in her fascinating analysis of the early-20th-century people’s health movement in Sweden, describes how the predominant perspective on health, or lack of ill-health, varied in Sweden during the 19th century. The early 1800s saw an emphasis on ensuring population growth.
Nov 23, 2016 · 2016-11-23. Professor Emerita Karin Johannisson has left us after a period of illness at the. age of 72. (Image removed) Karin was one of the most renowned scholars in the humanities in Sweden and made modern history of medicine a successful research area in Swedish academy and in public consciousness.
