Background
Josephson, Aksel Gustav Salomon was born on October 2, 1860 in Uppsala, Sweden. Son of Jacob Axel and Hilda Augusta (Schram) Josephson.
Josephson, Aksel Gustav Salomon was born on October 2, 1860 in Uppsala, Sweden. Son of Jacob Axel and Hilda Augusta (Schram) Josephson.
Educated in Sweden and New York State Library School, Albany.
Came to America, 1893, naturalized, 1898. Cataloguer, New York Public Library (Lenox Library), 1894-1896. Chief cataloguer, John Crerar Library, Chicago, 1896-1923.
Consultant cataloguer since 1928.
An organizer, and officer Bibliographical Society Chicago and successor, Bibliographical Society America, also Swedish History Society America, Swedish Ednl. League; member American library association, Lârdomshistoriska Samfundet (Uppsala), American Association Advancement Science.
Honorary member Bibliographical Society America, Chicago Library Club. Author: Proposition for the Establishment of a Bibliographical Institute, 1905.
History as Synthesis and the High School, 1930.
Also brochures and articles on bibliographical topics, book reviews, et cetera, in The Nation, 1904-1914. Regular contributor letters on Swedish and English books in the Weekly Nordstjernan, New New York Compiler: Avhandlingar och program utgivna vid Svenska och Finska Akademier och Skolor, 1892-1897. Bibliographies of Bibliographies, 1901, second edition, 1910-1914.
The John Crerar Library List of Books on the History of Science, 1911, Supplement, 1916.
List of Books on the History of Industry, 1915. Editor: Year Book Bibliographical Society Chicago, 1899-1903.
Papers and Bulls., Bibliographical Society America, 1909-1911, 1914-1918. Home: 133 North. Carlin Saint, Mobile, Alabama
Member American library association, Lârdomshistoriska Samfundet (Uppsala), American Association Advancement Science. Member Bibliographical Society America, Chicago Library.
Married Lucia Engberg, April.