Andrea Butenschen ( Swede. Andrea Butenschön ) (September 11, 1866 - April 24, 1948) is a Swedish writer, orientalist, and translator.
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Biography
From the father’s side, her family came from Germany . Childhood A. Butenshon passed on the picturesque shores of Lake Aspenes (Aspenäs), where her father's estate was located. The need to write manifested in her already in childhood. After classes with the governess at home, Andrea Butenshon studied for several years in Gothenburg at the school of fraulein Virgin Jacket ( Swede. Virgin Jacquette ). She then moved to Stockholm to study at the Vallinsky School ( Swede. Wallinska Skolan ) for girls. Here she became a student of Dr. Ellen Freese ( Swede. Ellen Fries ), a Swedish feminist and the first woman who received a doctorate degree in Sweden in 1883. With Ellen Freese, she began a friendship. At school A. Butenshon studied Swedish language, history of literature, Latin , logic, as well as philosophy, natural history, history of art, took a course in medical care. On the advice of Ellen Freese, she spent the winter in Paris , where she attended lectures at the Sorbonne and at the College de France .
In 1890-1891 she traveled to India , visited Bombay , Baroda , Ahmedabad , Jaipur , Delhi , Agra , Lucknow , Benares , Calcutta , Dargeline , and also Ceylon . During the trip, she met with representatives of Indian culture.
In the fall of 1892, she began studying Sanskrit in London . According to A. Butenshon, her decision to study Sanskrit was influenced by the book Rama Mohan Roy , whom she met during a trip to India. In the autumn of 1893 she continued to study Sanskrit at the Sorbonne, where she stayed for three semesters. Here she was the first woman to study this subject. Thanks to the assistance of two prominent Orientalists Sylvain Levy ( fr. Sylvain Lévi ) and James Darmsteter (James Darmesteter), she was pre-republished in the Asian Society ( fr. Société asiatique ), among 225 members of which were three women. Andrea Butenshon was one of them.
For health reasons, she had to interrupt her studies, but in Sweden, where she spent the winter of 1895–1896, A. Butenshon continued to study Sanskrit together with a qualified Sanskritologist Lucy Gibson ( Eng. Lucy Gibson ). In 1897-98 she studied in Kiel with professors Hermann Oldenberg ( him. Hermann Oldenberg ) and Paul Doysen ( him. Paul Deussen ).
Andrea Butenshon has collaborated with Word and Image magazines (Ord och Bild), Dagni, and Idun newspaper.
In 1913, she translated Rabindranath Tagore ’s collection of poems “ Gitanjali ” into Swedish, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Literature the same year.
Works
Selected works of A. Butenshon:
- 1894 - “Taj Mahal” - the poem “Taj Mahal” with illustrations by Julius Wengel.
- 1898 - “Tattaren och hon.” - “Gypsy and She” - a collection of literary etudes.
- 1898 - “Tattaren och hans son” - “Gypsy and his son”.
- 1902 - “Kâthaka-Upanishad” - “Katha Upanishad” - translated from Sanskrit of one of the parts of the Upanishads .
- 1905 - “Walt Whitman” - “Walt Whitman”, essay with translation of poems.
- 1909 - “För länge sedan” - “Once upon a time”, a play in 3 acts.
- 1913 - “Gitanjali (Sångoffer)” - “Gitanjali (Sacrificial chants)” by Rabindranath Tagore (translated from English).
- 1927 - “Jahanara Begam. En indisk kejsardotter. ”- the historical novel“ Jahanara-Begum, Indian Princess ”(in Swedish).
- 1931 - “The Life of a Mogul Princess Jahanara Begum: Daughter of Shahjahan” - the historical novel “The Life of the Mughal Princess Jahanara-Begum, the Daughter of Shahjahan” (in English). The author of this article, T. Schein, translated this novel into Russian, but the novel has not yet been published.