Steingrímur Thorsteinsson

Icelandic poet

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Steingrímur Thorsteinsson (born May 19, 1831, Snaefellsnes, Iceland—died August 21, 1913, Reykjavík) was an Icelandic patriotic poet and lyricist, best remembered as a translator of many important works into Icelandic. Thorsteinsson studied classical philology at the University of Copenhagen but, more important, read widely in the continental literature of his day. After 20 years in Copenhagen, he went back to Iceland in 1872 to become a teacher and later headmaster at the Latin School in...