Carl Gustaf Grimberg (22 September 1875 in Gothenburg, Sweden – 11 June 1941 in Djursholm) was a Swedish historian.
His parents were Joel Grimberg and Charlotta (née Andersson); in 1919, he married Eva Carlsdotter Sparre (1895–1982).[1]
Grimberg completed his PhD in 1903 and then took a teaching job.[2] In 1905 he began to write a school textbook, focussing on the history of Sweden and its diplomatic relations with Prussia, Denmark and other countries.[3] In 1908 he left his teaching job to concentrate fully on his writing.[1]
Grimberg's most famous work is his history of Sweden, Svenska folkets underbara öden [sv] (1913-1924); in 1926 Grimberg began to publish his history of the world, Världshistoria, but he did not finish it before his death.[4]
Publications in Norway
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.
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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
