Carl Grimberg

Summary

Carl Gustaf Grimberg (22 September 1875 in Gothenburg, Sweden – 11 June 1941 in Djursholm) was a Swedish historian.

Carl Grimberg.

His parents were Joel Grimberg and Charlotta (née Andersson). In 1919 he married Eva Carlsdotter Sparre (1895–1982).

Grimberg's most famous work is his history of Sweden, Svenska folkets underbara öden (1913-1924). In 1926 Grimberg began to publish his history of the world, Världshistoria, but he did not finish it before his death.

Publications in Norway edit

 
The twelve volumes of Världshistoria in Persian translation

The first Norwegian edition of Grimberg's world history was entitled Menneskenes Liv og Historie, and was published in the years 1955–1962. The publication consisted of 22 volumes. After the mention of the Neanderthals, the history of the world is reproduced from ancient Egypt until the end of the Second World War.

# Title Contents Year
1 Egypt–Near East The morning of culture

The Egyptians

Babylonians and Assyrians

1958
2 Near East–Hellas Assyrian and Babylonian culture

Hittites and Syrian people

Medes and Persians

The Aegean culture

The legendary age of the Hellenes. The patriarchal kingship

1959
3 Greece Economic and social upheavals in Greece

Ionian culture, poetry and philosophy

The first great test of power between East and West

Pericles' Happy Age

War between brothers

The first heyday of science

The ancient Attic comedy

1959
4 Greece–Rome Greece's political decline

Macedonian hegemony

Hellenism

Italy before the Romans

Rome's saga time

Rome's era of heroes and glory

1959
5 Rome Rome's era of heroes and glory

The oldest Roman literature

The time of revolution

1959
6 Rome The Imperial Age

The world empire is beginning to unravel at the seams

1959
7 The migrations The great Germanic migrations

Luminous figures in dark centuries

The Arab migration

Carolingian era

Viking trains

1959
8 The Crusades The German Empire is resurrected and experiences a new era of glory

The Crusades

From the world of thought of the time of the Crusades to religious emotional life

1960
9 War of the Hanseatic League The role of the Empire in the Middle Ages has been played out

A period of decline for the papacy as well

Italy's literary heyday

The Anglo-French Hundred Years' War

The Wars of the Roses

1960
10 The Renaissance The cross and the crescent moon

The Spanish unitary state emerges

From late medieval thinking

Italian Renaissance

Renaissance art in Italy

1960
11 Discoveries–Reformation Renaissance and humanism north of the Alps

Emperor Charles V's time. The great reformers

1960
12 Charles V.–Philip II. Emperor Charles V's time. The Turk father and Henry VIII's England

The great naturalists of the Reformation era

A shining century for South European fiction

The heyday of Spanish painting

Philip II and his time

The heyday of Dutch, Flemish and Dutch art

1960
13 The Wars of Religion The Huguenot Wars

England at the end of the 16th century

The last great religious war

England at the beginning of the 17th century

1960
14 The age of Louis XIV When the great thinkers were natural scientists and mathematicians

The age of Louis XIV

1960
15 The War of the Spanish Succession, Russia and Poland, England in the 18th century The age of Louis XIV. The War of the Spanish Succession

Russia's oldest history

Peter 1. and the Nordic War

Poland's oldest history

England take the lead

1961
16 English and French intellectual life in the 18th century, America–India A great time in English cultural history

North America

India

L´ancien régime in France

1961
17 Turkey, Austria and Prussia, the French Revolution Turkey, Austria and Prussia

Storm over the empire

Liberty, Equality and Fraternity

1961
18 Napoleon–Victoria Napoleon's eagles

Iron, coal, cotton and machinery

Reaction and revolution

1961
19 Liberalism–nationalism The Communist Manifesto

"To wake up among the stars"

"Only soldiers help against democrats"

Victorians

Louis Napoleon

Storm over Crimea

The Second Empire

Excursion to Italy

The turning point

Fatherland in danger

The North American Civil War

1961
20 Imperialism–democracy The dollar princes

The White Man's Burden

The long peace

"Now the lights go out"

1961
21 Our own time The period 1914-1945

"Beautiful New World"

1961
22 Historical atlas. Main register Ancient times

The Middle Ages

Recent times

Our own century

1962
I China, Japan, Korea China

Japan

Korea

1969
II India and Southeast Asia India

Ceylon

Back India

Indonesia

1969
III Africa The first people and the settlement of Africa

Civilization and the spread of culture

Foreign rule and Berber travel in North Africa

The Negro kingdoms south of the Sahara

Trade and colonization in East Africa

The kingdoms south of the rainforest

The slave trade in West Africa

Colonization of tropical Africa

Resistance and conquest in North Africa

European rule in southern Africa

Colonial times in tropical Africa

Decolonization

Independent Africa

1970
IV Latin America

ISBN 82-02-03234-2

1974
V North America

ISBN 82-02-03646-1

1977
23 The duel without end.

International politics after 1945. ISBN 82-02-02728-4

The Atomic Age

From cooperation to cold war

Strength test in Europe

Test of strength in the East

Uneasy coexistence

Towards the edge of the abyss

Unstable balance

The Second Vietnam War

The Middle East between East and West

"The Middle Kingdom" and "The Kingdom in the Middle"

1973
24 The rich societies.

The Western countries and Japan after 1945. ISBN 82-02-02731-4

The world of the ship

USA – The new world power

Canada - America's Northerners

Great Britain - A world power on food councils

The renewed France

The dwarf midget West Germany Year 0

The Nordic countries - Democracy's laboratories

The sunny side

The Pacific World

The new industrial society

1974
25 The world of revolution and hunger.

International politics after 1945. ISBN 82-02-02734-9

The Second World Power – the Soviet Union

The Other Europe – Eastern Bloc

China – A third superpower?

The Third World

The world of Allah and oil

East of Suez

East of the Sahara

The Other America – Latin America

North and South

1974

External links edit

  • Carl Grimberg resources