August Leonard Bondeson (2 February 1854 - 23 September 1906) was a Swedish physician and author.

Biography

August Bondeson was born in Vessigebro,

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...

. He was a student at

Uppsala University Uppsala University (UU) () is a public university, public research university in Uppsala, Sweden. Founded in 1477, it is the List of universities in Sweden, oldest university in Sweden and the Nordic countries still in operation. Initially fou ...

from 1876, graduating with a med. kand. in 1884. He also studied at

Karolinska Institute The Karolinska Institute (KI; ; sometimes known as the (Royal) Caroline Institute in English) is a research-led medical university in Solna within the Stockholm urban area of Sweden and one of the foremost medical research institutes globally ...

(1885-1886). He started as a practicing physician in

Gothenburg Gothenburg ( ; ) is the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, second-largest city in Sweden, after the capital Stockholm, and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated by the Kattegat on the west coast of Sweden, it is the gub ...

in the fall of 1889. Starting in 1876, he made summer trips for the study of folk languages and folk life in Värmlands Älvdal. He became one of the most popular depictors of popular Swedish culture, focusing in particular on common people's lives in southern Sweden, close to his birthplace. Tales such as ''Halländska sagor, samlade och berättade'' ("Collected and Narrated Hallandic Tales"), '' Allmogeberättelser'' ("Popular Tales") and ''Historiegubbar på Dal'' ("Tale-telling Old Mans at Dal") gave him a large and faithful audience. He is best known for his novel ''"John Chronschoughs memoarer från uppväksttiden och seminarieåren"'' ( "John Chronschough's memoirs" ), which is set at the teachers' seminary in Gothenburg in the early 1860s. The book was published in 1897 and was followed by an independent second part 1904. He died in

during 1906. His former home ''Fågelboet'' was donated to the

Halland Museum of Cultural History Halland Museum of Cultural History () is a museum of cultural history in Varberg, Sweden. The museum was formerly known as Varberg County Museum (Swedish: ''Länsmuseet Varberg''). The name was changed in 2011. The museum is situated in the Varbe ...

and is preserved almost unchanged since the days of Bondeson.

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1854 births 1906 deaths People from Falkenberg Municipality Swedish male writers Uppsala University alumni Karolinska Institute alumni Physicians from Gothenburg {{Sweden-writer-stub