Jón Árnason (other)

	Jón Árnason (other) Jón Árnason may refer to: * Jón Árnason (bishop of Garðar) (died 1209) * Jón Árnason (author) (1819–1888), Icelandic author * Jón Loftur Árnason (born 1960), Icelandic chess player * Jón Gunnar Árnason (1931–1989), Icelandic sculptor {{hndis, Jon Arnason ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Jón Árnason (author) Jón Árnason (17 August 1819 – 4 September 1888)''Mannslát'' (Obituary) in '' Ísafold''5 September 1888 was an Icelandic author, librarian, and museum director who made the first collection of Icelandic folktales. Career Jón Árnason was educated at the Latin School in Bessastaðir."Jón Arnason", ''Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern: A-Z'', ed. Charles Dudley Warner et al., Volume 2, New York: Peale and Hill, 1896, OCLC 1182898p. 802 From 1848 to 1887, he was the first librarian at what became the National Library of Iceland in Reykjavík; in 1881 its name was changed from ''Íslands stiftisbókasafn'' (Foundation library of Iceland) and his title became ''Landsbókavörður Íslands'' (National Librarian of Iceland). Meanwhile he also served as the first librarian of the Iceland branch of the Icelandic Literary Society. He was also the first curator of the ''Forngripasafns Íslands'' (Icelandic Antiquities Collection), which became the N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Jón Loftur Árnason Jón Loftur Árnason (born 13 November 1960) is an Icelandic chess grandmaster. He is a three-time Icelandic Chess Champion and was World U17 Chess Champion in 1977. Chess career Like fellow Scandinavians Simen Agdestein and Magnus Carlsen, Jón in his youth was hailed as a potential world champion after a string of promising results. In 1976, aged 15, he finished equal first in an event for players under 21. The same year, he won an Icelandic open tournament with the score of 9.5/11. Just a year later, playing in a telex match for Iceland against England, he drew as Black against Jonathan Mestel, an established master. Also in 1977, at Cagnes-sur-Mer, he won the World Under-17 Championship (ahead of other distinguished young talents, including Garry Kasparov), before becoming Icelandic champion on the first of three occasions (1977, 1982 and 1988). Shortly thereafter, he accepted an invitation to join the Botvinnik chess school in the Soviet Union. In 1979, FIDE awarded hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]