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Stefán Einarsson
Stefán Einarsson (9 June 1897 – 9 April 1972) was an Icelandic linguist and literary historian, who was a professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in the United States.
==Life and career==
Stefán was born and raised on the farm of Höskuldsstaðir in Breiðdalur. His parents were Einar Gunnlaugsson and his wife Margrét Jónsdóttir.〔Anatoly Liberman, "Stefán Einarsson: Austfirðingur í húð og hár", in Stefán Einarsson, ''Studies in Germanic Philology'', ed. Anatoly Liberman, Hamburg: Buske, 1986, ISBN 9783871187551, pp. ix–xlii, p. ix.〕 After attending school in Akureyri and graduating in 1917 from the Menntaskólinn in Reykjavík,〔Liberman, p. xv.〕 he attended the University of Iceland and completed a Master's degree in Icelandic in 1923–24; while a student, he assisted Sigfús Blöndal and Jón Ófeigsson on the Icelandic dictionary for four years.〔Liberman, p. xvii.〕 He then studied phonetics at the University of Helsinki in 1924–25 and at the University of Cambridge and completed his Ph.D at the University of Oslo with a dissertation on the phonetics of Icelandic.〔(Dr. Stefán Einarsson: eini Breiðdælingurinn til þess að hljóta doktorsnafnabót á 20. öld ), Breiðdæla, 2002, retrieved 9 March 2013 〕
He became a faculty member at Johns Hopkins the same year, 1927, at the invitation of Kemp Malone, for whom he had recorded a study text in Icelandic,〔Liberman, pp. xvii, xxi.〕 and worked there until his retirement in 1962. He taught primarily in the English department, in the fields of Old Norse and Old English, and beginning in 1945, Scandinavian literature. He became Professor of Scandinavian Philology in 1945.〔Liberman, p. xxix.〕〔(Biographical Note - Einarsson (Stefan) 1897–1972: Papers 1942–1959 ), Special Collections, The Milton S. Eisenhower Library, The Johns Hopkins University.〕 He remained loyal to Iceland, accepting all invitations to contribute articles about Iceland to reference works and becoming one of the founding officers of the Icelandic Patriotic Society, for whose journal he wrote at least one article a year.〔Liberman, p. xxv.〕 He edited ''Heimskringla'', the Icelandic newspaper published in Winnipeg. In 1942 he was appointed Icelandic vice-consul in Baltimore; from 1952 to 1962, when he retired from Johns Hopkins, he served as consul.〔〔Liberman, p. xxvi.〕 After retirement he moved back to Iceland and lived in Reykjavík until his death (in Hrafnista nursing home);〔Liberman, p. xxxiii.〕 he was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship for 1962–63.〔Liberman, p. xxx.〕
He played violin and piano and drew and painted well;〔 several of his works include illustrations by him.〔John G. Allee, Jr., "Stefán Einarsson", in ''Nordica et Anglica: Studies in honor of Stefán Einarsson'', ed. Allan H. Orrick, Janua linguarum series maior 22, The Hague: Mouton, 1968, , pp. 7–9, p. 8.〕 He was married twice. His first wife, Margarethe Schwarzenberg〔Liberman, p. xx; other sources spell her name Margarete Schwarzenburg.〕 (26 May 1892 – 7 January 1953), was an Estonian historian. They had no children. Her ashes are buried with his at the family farm.〔〔Liberman, pp. xxxi, xxxiii.〕〔(History of Hoskuldsstadir ), Odin Tours Iceland, retrieved 8 March 2013.〕 His second wife, whom he married in December 1954, was Ingibjörg Árnadóttir〔〔 (1896 – 1980), from Njarðvík, a relative of Halldór Hermannsson, the librarian of the Fiske Icelandic collection at Cornell University.〔Liberman, p. xxxii.〕 She had four children from a previous marriage.
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