Harry Lönnroth
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General description
Harry Lönnroth is Professor of Scandinavian Languages at the University of Jyväskylä. He studies Scandinavian Languages from a cultural-historical perspective over a long period of time (c. 1300–1900). His work deepens the picture of Swedish texts and textual conventions in the medieval and early modern period and thus increases our understanding of the temporal multilayeredness of language and texts.
Active JYU affiliations
Research interests
Lönnroth studied Scandinavian Languages at the University of Tampere, where he graduated as Master of Arts in 2000 and PhD in 2006. In addition, he studied general linguistics, teacher's pedagogical studies, Norwegian language and culture, and the history of ideas and learning, also studying at Uppsala University. Lönnroth is Docent of Scandinavian Languages at the University of Tampere (2009) and Docent of Scandinavian Philology at the University of Turku (2011). He has worked as a fixed-term professor in both Turku (2007) and Tampere (2010).
Lönnroth's legal philological dissertation on the judgment book of the town of Ekenäs 1678–1695 was finished in 2006 and published the following year in the series of the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters. Lönnroth's research has focused mainly on Scandinavian philology and Swedish language history from the Middle Ages to the 1900s, often in close collaboration with historical sciences, and he has also written on sociolinguistics and translation studies. He has also worked as a translator; The Finnish Literature Society, Vastapaino and Warelia have published his translations.
From 2008 to 2010, Lönnroth worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Academy of Finland-funded project "Linguistic change in an industrial town: Swedishness in Tampere, 1779–2000". He is currently leading the Kone Foundation-funded project "City scribes in the kingdom of Sweden in the early modern period (1614–1714): Their profession, agency and use of language". Lönnroth is a member of Sällskap för östnordisk filologi's committee (2017–), the editorial board of Diplomatarium Fennicum (2018–), and a member of the Network for Early Modern Research in Finland (2020–) and Glossa (2023–). From 2019 to 2023, he was editor of the journal LexicoNordica.
Lönnroth has received the following recognitions for his work: Kungl. Humanistiska Vetenskaps-Samfundet i Uppsala (foreign member 2012), Kungl. Samfundet för utgivande av handskrifter rörande Skandinaviens historia (foreign member 2012), Kungl. Skytteanska Samfundet (correspondent member 2017), Finnish Historical Society (researcher member 2016), member of the Finnish Cultural Foundation's Support Association (2016), The Society of Swedish Literature in Finland dissertation prize (2007), Finnish Academy of Science and Letters dissertation prize (2007), and ultimus doctor of the University of Tampere's Conferment of Doctoral Degrees (2010).
Fields of science
Personal keywords
Scandinavian languages; Swedish; Old Swedish; Early Modern Swedish; language history; philology; Scandinavian studies; translation history; translating; sociolinguistics; linguistic biography; city scribes; court records; Alvar Aalto
Keywords (YSO)
Projects as Principal investigator
- Sällskap för östnordisk filologis konferens17.-19.6.2024
- Participants (conferences, training)
- City scribes in the kingdom of Sweden in the early modern period (1614–1714): Their profession, agency and use of language
- Kone Foundation
- Nordisk Litteratur, Kultur og Sprog: Nordliks/2019
- Finnish National Agency for Education
- Nordisk Litteratur, Kultur og Sprog: Nordliks/2018
- Finnish National Agency for Education
Projects as Team Member
- Dies Mediaevales 2019
- Merisalo, Outi
- Federation of Finnish Learned Societies