Background
Adolph Benson was born in Skåne, Sweden as the eldest of nine children.
Adolph Benson was born in Skåne, Sweden as the eldest of nine children.
He graduated from Wesleyan University, Bachelor"s degree (1907), Master"s degree (1910).
Adolph Benson"s research focused primarily on the study of Swedish-American culture. He emigrated to the United States during 1892. In 1914, he became associate professor of German language and literature at Yale University.
In 1920, he became extraordinary professor of German and Scandinavian languages and literature.
His autobiography Farm, Forge and Philosophy: Chapters of a Swedish Immigrant"s Life was published by the Swedish American Historical Society in 1961. The papers of Adolph Burnett Benson are available from Manuscripts and Archives at the Yale University Sterling Memorial Library in New Haven, Connecticut. Original works.
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