Alfred Jensen was born in Hälsingtuna,
Gävleborg County, and studied at
Uppsala University. From 1884 to 1887, he worked for one of Sweden's largest newspapers — Göteborgs
Handels-och Sjöfartstidning. He visited
Germany,
Serbia,
Bulgaria and other Slavic countries. In 1901 he received a position at the Nobel Institute of the
Swedish Academy at
Stockholm. In 1907, he received an
honorary degree in
philosophy from the Uppsala University. Jensen became one of the prominent translators of
Slavic literature into
Swedish. He translated
Gogol,
Turgenev,
Pushkin,
Lermontov,
Shevchenko,
Kotsyubynsky and
Mickiewicz. He also contributed literary critique on
Russian,
Ukrainian,
Bulgarian,
Slovenian and
Czech literature. His historic works included
Russian cultural history,
Mazepa and others. In 1911, he became a member of the
Shevchenko Scientific Society. Jensen died in Vienna on 15 September 1921, and is buried at the Inzersdorf cemetery. ==See also==